The things people suddenly choose to care about.
A 62% gamut isn't bad. The iPhone 4 was praised for its gamut and calibration, both of which are matched here (while competing phones and tablets didn't, and in many cases,
still don't exceed those figures). The color performance of the iPad mini actually beats the Nexus 7, even with the narrower gamut.
It's a huge mistake to reduce any comparison to a single point of reference. If you looked only at GPU performance, you'd never consider a Kindle or a Nexus. If you looked only at resolution, you'd never consider a mini. If you only cared about RAM size, iPads are out. If you only cared about NAND performance, Android as a whole is pretty much out. If you only cared about display
accuracy, you'd
only consider the iPad mini and the Kindle Fire HD.
You've got to look at the whole package. Most people here complaining about color gamut couldn't even define it. Maybe the whole package of the iPad mini isn't for you. Maybe it's too expensive and too low resolution. But it doesn't make it
bad, just like my Kindle Fire HD's lackluster hardware and software performance doesn't make it
bad on the whole.