The latest from Apple is the lightest ever
On October 22, a new iPad was born and announced live to the world. Amid a barrage of stats, warm words and mild patronising of “confused” Android rivals, the stylish tablet arrived with a brand new name, too: The iPad Air.
Apple’s full-sized, 9.7-inch iPad has been given a design overhaul and, as the moniker suggests, it’s thinner, lighter and more tapered—like the MacBook Air—than ever. There is a retina display and the bezel around it has been slimmed down, making this fifth-gen iPad 20 percent thinner than before. It has also had 45 g shaved off the weight, making it the world’s lightest full-size tablet, though we’ll see how long Samsung, Amazon and Sony allow that to stand.
(This story appears in the 24 January, 2014 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)