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IN THIS CHAPTER

❯❯ Looking at the big picture

❯❯ Touring the outside of the iPad

❯❯ Checking out the iPad’s apps

Congratulations! You’ve selected one of the most incredible handheld devices we’ve ever seen. Of course, the iPad is a combination of a killer audio and video player, an e-book reader, a powerful Internet communications device, a superb handheld gaming device, a still and video camera, and a platform for over 1.6 million apps at the time this was written – and probably a lot more by the time you read this.

Apple has produced 12 iPad models so far: The original iPad (2010), the iPad 2 (2011), the iPad third generation (Spring 2012), the iPad fourth generation (Fall 2012), the iPad mini (Fall 2012), the iPad Air and the iPad mini 2 (Fall 2013), the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 (Fall 2014), the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and iPad mini 4 (Fall 2015); and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro (Spring 2016). To avoid confusion, we refer to the four original full-sized iPads – the ones that don’t have Air, mini, or Pro as their surname – as first-, second-, third-, and fourth-generation iPads, respectively.

Note that we’re not covering the first-generation through third-generation iPads in this book because the latest operating system (iOS 10) doesn’t run on them. If you’re the owner of one of those models, you can still find a lot of handy information here, but some things might look or work differently. You might want to rummage around for a previous edition of this book.

In this chapter, we offer a gentle introduction to all the pieces that make up your iPad, plus overviews of its revolutionary hardware and software features.