What is the IPAD Owners Association?
The original IPAD was created as a simple but powerful answer to a complex problem. It is a completely specialized embedded operating system (which is why it is now called IPAD-OS) designed to perform a set of tasks at the highest efficiency possible on modest hardware. But that seems to be a hard concept to explain over the phone to a prospective new customer. So eSoft chose to put the IPAD product and associated development on the shelf. In February 2000, a group of loyal IPAD customers banded together and formed a not-for-profit organization called the IPAD Owners Association, Inc. (IOA). The IOA collectively purchased the rights to the original IPAD-OS source code and is continuing the development needed to keep it current with modern Internet technology and sometimes providing features not available on any other platform.
