Apple Inc. will sell the newly unveiled tablet-style iPad starting at
$499, a price tag far below the $1,000 that some analysts were
expecting.
The iPad, which is larger in size but similar in design to Apple's
popular iPhone, was billed by CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday as "so much
more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart
phone."
Jobs, 54, a pancreatic cancer survivor who got a liver transplant
during a 5 1/2-month medical leave last year, looked thin as he
introduced the highly anticipated gadget, though he seemed to have more
energy than he did at Apple's last event in September.