Apple's first tablet computer was the Newton MessagePad 100,[24][25] introduced in 1993, which led to the creation of the ARM6 processor core with Acorn Computers. Apple also developed a prototype PowerBook Duo-based tablet, the PenLite, but decided not to sell it in order to avoid hurting MessagePad sales.[26] Apple released several more Newton-based PDAs; the final one, the MessagePad 2100, was discontinued in 1998.

Apple re-entered the mobile-computing markets in 2007 with the iPhone. Smaller than the iPad but featuring a camera and mobile phone, it pioneered the multitouch finger-sensitive touchscreen interface of Apple's iOS mobile operating system. By late 2009, the iPad's release had been rumored for several years. Such speculation mostly talked about "Apple's tablet"; specific names included iTablet and iSlate.[27] The actual name is reportedly an homage to the Star Trek PADD, a fictional device very similar in appearance to the iPad.[28] The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.[29][30]

Jobs later said that Apple began developing the iPad before the iPhone,[31][32][33] but temporarily shelved the effort upon realizing that its ideas would work just as well in a mobile phone.[34] The iPad's internal codename was K48, which was revealed in the court case surrounding leaking of iPad information before launch
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