Time Magazine: iPad One Of Best Inventions Of 2010

Time Magazine called the iPad one of the “Best Inventions of 2010,” in its latest weekly issue. Apple’s device took the top spot on the list’s technology category. Time states:

How does Apple keep out-inventing the rest of the tech industry? Often, it's by reinventing a product category that its competitors have given up on. In theory, the iPad is merely a follow-up to such resoundingly unpopular slate-style computers as Microsoft's Tablet PC. But Apple is the first company that designed finger-friendly hardware and software from scratch rather than stuffing a PC into a keyboardless case. When it calls the results "magical" and "revolutionary," it's distorting reality only slightly. One analyst says the iPad is the fastest-selling nonphone gizmo in consumer-electronics history.

Two apps also made the list. Time honored the Flipboard app which combines Facebook and Twitter updates with RSS feeds within a magazine format. In addition the Square app was recognized. It turns an iPhone/iPod touch or iPad into a credit card reader for small vendors. Time called the iPhone the "Invention of the Year" in 2007.

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