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On January 27, 2010, Apple founder Steve Jobs announces the first-generation iPad at a press event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. On April 3, 2010, the tablet is officially released to the entire world. The device created a distinction between the phone and computer, in that it integrated haptic feedback to provide touchscreen capabilities for its users, as well as having a screen big enough to make it flexible enough to also serve as a portable laptop.
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On December 7, 2010, Google announces the ChromeOS Pilot Program at a Google I/O event in San Francisco, California. The program itself would serve as a predecessor to the Chromebook, a low-cost alternative to standard laptops invented by Google engineer Jeff Nelson, which Acer and Samsung would later eventually brand and sell to consumers on June 15, 2011. Chromebooks would later end up becoming a substitute for textbooks over the next few years for budget-constrained schools across the world.
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On June 7, 2011, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced the Wii U at E3 in Los Angeles, California. The handheld was intentionally designed for kids playing video games to have less control of their TV sets, which would be shared by other people. This meant having a built-in 6.2-inch screen installed onto a separate gamepad to combat such household issues. Released on November 18, 2012, it was the first gaming console to be released in the 2010s, competing alongside the PS4 and XBOX One.
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On December 7, 2016, late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon was given the opportunity to debut the Nintendo Switch, alongside Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé, showing off more of the device's functionalities and gameplaying capabilities. It was later released worldwide on March 3, 2017, providing more benefits than the Wii U, giving users the chance to cast their games on their TVs without an HDMI cable, but also providing two joy-con controllers on both sides as well.
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SanDisk first announced and unveiled a prototype of a 1 TB SDXC memory card back in 2016 at the Photokina trade fair in Europe, but the card itself never came into fruition beyond what they showcased. However, on January 9, 2019, another Flash memory card manufacturing company, Lexar eventually beat SanDisk to it, and managed to launch their own SDXC 1 TB memory card to the world. Like most advanced memory cards, it is capable of reading transfer speed faster than the others.