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# A Decade of iPad Evolution
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/a-decade-of-ipad-evolution/
- Published: 2020-01-10T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-10T13:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[A decade of iPads in my life – from 'movie Kindle' onwards - 9to5Mac](https://ww.9to5mac.com/2020/01/09/a-decade-of-ipads/?ref=birchtree.me)

> I could go on, but the bottom line is that while the iPad Pro can’t replace my MacBook Pro, it has replaced a fair chunk of my usage of it. I’d guess that something like 25% of the things I used to do on a MacBook are now done on my iPad.

This is a great history by Ben Lovejoy on how the iPad started as a pure consumption device and slowly started to chip away at most things that his traditional computers did for him.