Little Known Facts about the iPad, Apple iPad, iPad 4 Technical specifications and general know-how about the iPads are readily available all over the web. For example, with just a few key strokes we can find out that the release date of the 1st generation iPad was 3rd April 2010, but this model has now discontinued; the iPad 2 was released on the 11th March 2011 and can still be bought; the 3rd generation iPad was released on the 7th March 2012 but has also been discontinued; the 4th generation iPad and the iPad Mini were released on the 2nd November 2012 and are available on the market.