Just have to laugh at how silly some people can be.
The irony of this post ...
People also believed there would be a 2nd iPad (released in the same year) when Steve Jobs said year of iPad 2. So yeah people will believe anything.
Weak argument. Apple supports devices much longer than the competition. How many Android devices don't support ICS and have only ben on the market less than a year. Is it a first ten device if it just a smaller form factor? It will release with iOS6.
I don't really see the point of this. The iPad was a great note-taking, work, and media computer, but the iPad Mini's screen is too small to have a nice, almost-full-sized keyboard. I wouldn't want to do work or watch a movie on a 7.85" screen.
This makes no sense for Apple, unless it feels the need to counter Google's Nexus Tablet. Given the dismal track record of all Android tablets to date, I doubt very much that Apple is concerned. Apple's main competition, I believe, will come from Windows 8. In this regard, is it possible that Apple wants to push iOS down into smaller devices (smaller iPad, iPhone) and will start to incorporate more OS X functionality in the 10" model? This would differentiate its product line along the lines of Surface - one tablet that runs a scaled-down OS (Windows RT vs iOS) and another that runs the full OS (Windows 8 vs. Mac OS X).
Apple has no competition in the 7" space and the only successful tablet of that size - Kindle Fire - is now seeing dismal sales. While the most successful Android tablet, the Kindle Fire is a market failure given its low sales volumes. So why on earth would Apple feel the need to compete with a market that essentially it already owns?
At what point does an iPad become Mini and an iPod Touch become Large?
(More specifically, when does a pod become a pad??)
This rumor does carry one interesting tidbit.
It states the iPad mini will be as thin as the Touch. So this tablet will be crazy thin and that goes along with Apple's design goals. Thin will mean less weight of course which would be good.
If only it had GPS standard... we shall just have to wait and see but if it makes the Nexus 7 look fat then that's interesting.
What's the point of a smaller iPad? You would truly be better off with th regular iPad size. It seems a little unnecessary to decrease the size of one of your products to compete with another company...
Please stop babbling nonsense. Brazil is as "third world" as most European countries nowadays, with a ridiculously large middle-class and richer-class consumer market, and an extremely high labor and welfare cost, which makes it impossible to be a sweatshop as happens in China or India.
The country is already the fourth largest market in the world for cars, the sixth for cell phones and the seventh in Internet usage, not to mention that it's the place with the highest C-level salaries in the world.
The only reason Apple devices do not sell MORE over there is because of taxes, which normally more than double the price of such devices (as well as the prices of telecom services, which suffer from at least 40% taxation). If prices in Brazil were the same as in the US, Brazilians would probably have more disposable income to buy more iPads than virtually any other country nowadays.
And just to remind people again: only a handful of people live in the remote Amazon, OK? The US equivalent of that would be Alaska.
People type on their 3.5" iPhone screens. We're talking about over double the size here diagonally plus there would be dictation features as well.
You guys would see the point more if you took a more holistic view. iPads can be used in restaurants and other commercial venues (Real Estate, Insurance -doc signing). They are used in education.
It's not just about playing movies and surfing the web. I know a guy work on a freight line. He walks down the line of containers and checks things in on his iPad. He doesn't need 9.7" but that's his only option.
Weak argument. Apple supports devices much longer than the competition. How many Android devices don't support ICS and have only ben on the market less than a year. Is it a first ten device if it just a smaller form factor? It will release with iOS6.
Isn't it a lot easier to type on a screen that has almost a full-sized keyboard? And the 7.85" iPad is not really any more portable.
ipad is still pretty affordable and aggressively priced, this smaller version makes no sense, as it would either kill purpose of ipod touch or might prove as a strong competitor to all the other crap like kindle fire n what not in the market, its very interesting to see how this all develops, nope i dont think apple will announce this.
makes no sense!
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making ipad smaller would not be a good step as we need adequate amount of area for a good web experience and apple doesnt offer compromized products, a big screen ipad can make sense not shrinking it down even further.
if anyone has used ipad the screen is just right nothing larger nor smaller would do a good justice, it just shrinks down everything.
apple wont do it, its a false rumor in my opinion!