The idea of tables exited Tablets have existed before the iPad came along. However, the iPad has exploded in the marketthey were not successful. Microsoft came up with a line of Microsoft Tables PC but their clients were mainly business people. In 2010 Apple Inc. released iPad’s with major success. iPad are extremely popular and people find them easy to use. The key element of the iPad’s success lies within with its great user interface that allows people and a natural and comfortable usage. Natural interaction of the screen is what made it successful. They are easy to use due to the touch screen technology and iPad’s are very portable. In some ways they have replaced the paper notebooks that people used to carry around. Handwriting and note taking technology is also available and it’s interesting to note that this copies in a technical way old styles of note taking. Comfort levels are established. The use of an iPad for example is learned quickly since the functions are all laid out on a touch screen. The only presumed background knowledge would by previous use of computers such as laptops, etc. which are common in today’s schools and workplaces. The technology is a natural user interface because it removes the need to input information through the traditional keyboard in favor of directly inputting information on the screen. This type of usage takes away some of the artificial feel from having to input information through a keyboard.