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Apple planned an iPad with two ports but shelved it, prototype images show

March 29, 2021

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Apple’s original iPad not only paved the way for the expanded iPad lineup that we know today, but also the table market as a whole. As new prototype images reveal, though, the first-gen iPad could have been quite different.

The original iPad could have had two ports

Images of an unreleased first-generation iPad prototype (via iMore) reveal Apple at one stage planned to include two 30-pin connectors, the port Apple used before transitioning to Lightning in 2012, on the original tablet.

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