[buck746]

I had an original iPhone the day it was released. Lots of people viewed it as too expensive and "why would I need that".

When iPad came out plenty of people had the notion that "no one really needs that, it's just a toy".

This is a pattern with apple products going back to the original Macintosh.

[throw46365]

When the iPad came out, people actually mostly said it was just a big iPhone.

It is, in fact, pretty much still just a big iPhone.

It turns out that's enough for a lot of people.

[gattilorenz]

True! I remember a quite funny meme where the iPad being held by Jobs during WWDC was photoshopped and replaced with 4 iPhones taped together: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ipad-spoofing

I still chuckle at that one.

[Ancapistani]

> When iPad came out plenty of people had the notion that "no one really needs that, it's just a toy".

Remember the iPad Mini? People were calling full-size the "Maxi iPad".

That's the phase that we're in right now. The utility isn't quite there, but the promise is.

These days I use my iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard as my primary web interface. That wasn't possible at first, but if you looked at the product with the future in mind, it was forseeable.