Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter in late 2010 that his own children had not used the iPad, and that he limited technology at home, even as the tablet he had unveiled in San Francisco months earlier was on its way to selling hundreds of millions

Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter in late 2010 that his own children had not used the iPad, and that he limited technology at home, even as the tablet he had unveiled in San Francisco months earlier was on its way to selling hundreds of millions

In a phone call in late 2010, New York Times reporter Nick Bilton asked Steve Jobs a simple question about the iPad, the tablet Jobs had unveiled on a San Francisco stage roughly nine months earlier: surely his children loved it? “They haven’t used it,” Jobs replied. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” The line landed quietly at the time. It has echoed ever since. Bilton did not publish the exchange immediately. He held it until…