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(1) My comment wasn't specifically about the person in the article.
(2) I'm using "iPad kid" in the colloquial sense. It's not literally about when the iPad was released. There are plenty of Internet based media consumption products that were portable long before 2010.
It's to mean growing up in the age of a media environment that profits specifically on keeping a child's attention and parents that are exhausted from overwork using it as a means of calming them.
This has been true for all kids to some extent since the birth year of 2000. It's not all kids. It's not all parents. It's different levels of intensity and at different ages of development. But, my point is around the general trend of more young adults that are experiencing less organic real world socialization.
It is the increased commodification of childhood. It is not unique to this generation but is growing significantly more intense. But, just as more of our adult lives are built into commodities (dating apps) so too are the lives of children. And one thing that is really easy to get from children is their addiction to watching media.