The iPad At Five: A Better All Round Device

It's five years since Steve Jobs introduced us to the iPad. In that time we've seen the device break sales records, single-handedly creating a market for a third-screen and succeeding where Microsoft had failed for a decade and a half.The thing is, the original iPad was pretty poor. It was heavy and unwieldy, had a decidedly average screen and was completely lacking in cameras. It was only with the arrival of the iPad 2 that it became a device worth buying. Subsequent updates have just kept the improvements coming, there's nothing on the iPad that is now anything but excellent.Five years on and the problem turns out to be that the iPad is just too good. There's no driver for users to upgrade because it's such a complete device that just doesn't age. As a result Apple is seeing sales fall off. Market share is down too, but only in the face of an onslaught of super-cheap Android and Windows tablets, a market that Apple and app developers have no interest in at a…