For as lomg as there's a market for iPad mini behind apples walled garden and devs apps cater for the mini, it's safe, but for the rest of the gadget world, it's already behind. If asus could put a current gen tegra 3 quad into a $200 tablet. Then apple could have done a bit better on the specs too. Thing is, they don't have to. Just like how the iPad 1 suffered a shorter support life due to 256mb ram, iPad mini might go the same way, or it might not. Depends what apple wanna do.