Not so long ago, you unboxed, say, your video recorder and, even if you marched ahead without reading a thing, you soon reached for the manual to help navigate a forest of buttons and a maze of menus.

Here’s the user manual for the iPad. It’s a single sheet that shows the layout of the three buttons. That’s it. There’s some info about syncing on the back, and I know there’s a bunch of guided tour ...

Uh oh. Did Apple just spoil its own event? Ahead of tomorrow's iPad event, an iPad user's guide for iOS 8 popped up online that appeared to show off Cupertino's next-gen iPads. The iTunes listing was ...