Well I do not see having to create an entire new App store at all for it providing it followed the same screen ratio as the iPad so point 2 is a non issue.
They'd need to use the same resolution though, even if it used the same aspect ratio, existing iPad apps wouldn't fit and there's no way to scale them up or down without them looking horrible.
Point 1.) I have to more agree with most of the sales would come from iPad owners shifting down but at the same time it might be enough to push quite a few people over the edge.
Point 3.) Weight is not the issue with the ipad but more the size is. It is not something that could easily be shoved into a purse or coat pocket. Another pocket that it could be nice to shove it into is the outside backpack pocket.
That's true, I suppose a smaller size would be better in that sense.
For example I will toss my kindle in the outside pocket of my backpack every now and then because it is easier to pull things out of there for a quick use but compare that with my Galaxy tab 10.1 which has to go into my main 2 pockets, it is a lot harder to pull things out of those 2 larger pockets.
It sometimes would be nice for the inbetween area.
Now I would go for the 10in area over the 7in but I figure those are good examples in terms of size. It is useful to look at and I have seen some reviews that more compare the galaxy 10.1 to 7in and the talk about how the size is pretty nice for what it is used for but yeah it is more of a nich product
It'd likely have weaker specs too, which would make it less appealing as well.
So you are saying that many people would love to buy such device but at the same time you say that many people would not draw many customers? WTF?
You know, before you insult someone you should generally make sure you're actually reading what they're saying correctly.
I said it wouldn't draw many
new customers. Re-read what I wrote if you still don't understand.
Smaller battery? Yes and smaller SCREEN ALSO (!!??) and the battery life would be just the same.
Yes the screen would be smaller, but the battery would be significantly smaller. You'd get maybe 60-70% of the battery life that the iPad 2 does.
And that about the screen being too small.. nonsense. There is plenty of same PPI Android 7" tablets and people love them.
I cannot understand Apple Fanboys logic.
Oh yes I can. There is none.
Again, you should read what someone's saying properly before you insult them, it doesn't look well on you.
You can't compare the PPI between devices running different software in this instance and say small content will be large enough, because it won't necessarily have similarly sized content.
The problem is, a 40x40 button is about as small as you can go before it starts to become too difficult to touch on the iPad 2, but on the 7 inch slate it would be roughly 30% smaller physically, and much too difficult to touch.
There's a lot of apps with tiny controls and it'd be a real problem.
