When the tablets came to the fore, the competition and main selling point was the size, weight and clarity. When Apple came up with the iPad 1, everyone thought that any future developments would come with the same size or bigger. However, market dynamics changed so fast when people started to prefer tablets that were easy to hold on their hand and go about with their day-to-day business.
Business dynamics say when the competition beats you to the punch; you had better have something that would catch him off guard. Everyone who looks at how the tablets are moving in the market knows that Samsung note and Samsung tablets were slowly taking over because they were the first Android tablets ever produced; someone at Apple must have had sleepless nights. The good thing is that these sleepless nights brought about what would be at the time, the first hand held tablet.