Apple to Ramp Up 7.85″ iPad Mini Production in September?

[Sasoon]

Here are the links to these iMore mockups in actual size (and movable):
iPad 3, iPad mini and iPhone
iPad 3, iPad mini, iPhone, Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire

 

[Zunjine]

Yes - actually you all should feel bad. A good parent would sit there and read a fairytale, sing a song or something like that. A good parent would encourage dealing with the real world - and not with virtual stuff on a screen.

Just my 0.02$

What a stupid and arrogant thing to say.

Leaving aside the self-contradiction of encouraging the reading of "fairytales" and then lamenting that computers and digital media are not "dealing with the real world" (because, yeah, teaching your kid to grow up with a Disney version of love, life and happiness is totally aligned with reality), who are you to tell others how to raise their own kids? And, if you are so arrogant to do so, at least don't be an idiot while you do.

Children love toys and they love to play with their parents using toys and other objects as part of that play. An iPad or some other device which makes sounds and displays images is no less decent an object of play than any other. And, as for "the real world", what exactly is not "real" about computers? Do you think your kid will benefit more from knowing the story of Sleeping Beauty than from learning, from an early age, to be comfortable with touch screens and other digital devices.

I feel sorry for your children having such a closed minded twit for a parent.

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How come 7.85" is too small, when 3.5" apparently was big enough?

Maybe because a tablet computer and a phone aren't the same? You may as well ask why people want 45" tellies but prefer 13" laptops.

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And my children will be educated to sneer at your TV and media manipulated zombie children with sheer arrogance.

If someone is to learn to sneer with arrogance they couldn't get a better role model for a parent.

I can only hope your kids are smarter than you are. Hopefully then they can use you as a lesson about how NOT to treat others.

 

[clark85]

I think they will stage it at least a month after the new iPhone, let our credit cards time to cool off a little

think so too,would be a very unclever move otherwise...

 

[divinox]

To everyone answering my question: it was rhetorical. At least one of you realized that. That someone knows who he is. =)

Apple could absolutely control the text book market with this move at all education levels.

Apple has a basic rule about this topic:

Can we make a significant contribution beyond what others have made in this area?

Rewriting the entire textbook industry would certainly qualify. Steve would not complain.

Controlling a media-type market requires controlling content. Bill Gates actually said it best, so i will let him speak for me:

After a while Buffett asked everyone to pick their favourite stock. What about Kodak? Asked Bill Ruane. He looked back at Gates to see what he would say.

“Kodak is toast” said Gates. Nobody else in the Buffett Group knew that the Internet and digital technology would make film cameras toast. In 1991, even Kodak didn’t know that it was toast.

“Bill probably thinks all the television networks are going to be killed” said Larry Tisch, whose company, Loews Corp., owned a stake in the CBS network.

“No, it’s not that simple” said Gates. “The way networks create and expose shows is different than camera film, and nothing is going to come in and fundamentally change that. You’ll see some falloff as people move toward variety, but the networks own the content and they can repurpose it. The networks face an interesting challenge as we move the transport of TV onto the internet. But it’s not like photograph, where you get rid of film so knowing how to make film becomes irrelevant.”​

 

[fertilized-egg]

Yes - actually you all should feel bad. A good parent would sit there and read a fairytale, sing a song or something like that. A good parent would encourage dealing with the real world - and not with virtual stuff on a screen.

Just my 0.02$

Oh, I do all of that too. We spend hours every day reading books and playing with her in the playground. But she still demands to play with iPad regularly.

On the other hand I don't think my baby has watched a single minute of TV in her life outside doctor's waiting room. We haven't watched TV since the baby was born. I'm rather curious how she'd feel when she finds out most other kids all spend hours watching TV at home.

 

[FloatingBones]

not really, i have an iPad 3 and still got a Kindle because u cant read shiat on the iPad display in the sun and it probably wont last for 2 months without charging either and the iPad has way too many great features to let me focus on reading for longer than 5 minutes

That doesn't make a lot of sense. The B&W Kindle has no comparison to the capabilities of an iPad: reading, color images, videos, 3rd party apps to help study, etc. Just stay out of the direct sunlight, and have the discipline to focus on your studies. Simple.

color displayes r also making eyes more tired after reading for too long

Really? Do you have a reference?

 

[swagi]

Oh, I do all of that too. We spend hours every day reading books and playing with her in the playground. But she still demands to play with iPad regularly.

On the other hand I don't think my baby has watched a single minute of TV in her life outside doctor's waiting room. We haven't watched TV since the baby was born. I'm rather curious how she'd feel when she finds out most other kids all spend hours watching TV at home.

Thanx for your feedback.

At least someone here with some sanity left. And don't get me wrong. Kids may play with an iPad. I'm o.K. with that.

But I still think an essential part of education is to say "No, you had your amount of time with the iPad and now it's done."

And Kudos to your TV anecdote. Hopefully you can tell her that she isn't missing anything when not watching TV. And hopefully she will agree. At least she will understand some day

 

[bushido]

That doesn't make a lot of sense. The B&W Kindle has no comparison to the capabilities of an iPad: reading, color images, videos, 3rd party apps to help study, etc. Just stay out of the direct sunlight, and have the discipline to focus on your studies. Simple.



Really? Do you have a reference?

my head is the reference and i have yet to see a single student that uses his/her iPad for intensive studying or reading for a long period of time. sure, its good to look things up quickly or to write something on your laptop while u have the powerpoint slides up on your iPad but thats about it as far as my "study-workflow" is concerned.

B&W eInk is still 100x better for reading books imo and distracts less from the main goal "reading"

my iPad for entertainment
Kindle for BOOKS (the point of a Kindle is that u can focus on the main goal > reading, i dont need all the other stuff on a Kindle, thats what the iPad is for like u said)

 

[FloatingBones]

my head is the reference

A reference of one person is called an anecdote.

Here are some anecdotes from the discussions here of people who are quite happy to read from their iPads for hours a day:

In the end I went with the 3, and immediately had buyers remorse. That changed after the first week. I put in very long reading session with both PDFs and ebooks, reading on the iPad for up to 6 hours in a sitting. Normally doing this on the computer would give me eye strain after only a couple of hours, but with the iPad 3 the tired strained eyes never came, and reading ebooks was especially awesome and true to life with this screen. I love the iPad 3 and certainly do not regret the purchase, but I would be interested in trying a long reading session on an iPad 2 to see if my assumption about eye strain on it is true.

[The new iPad is] a great reading device. We do now have a Retina display available on the MacBook Pros, but only at 15" and you have to use them in a landscape orientation. I much prefer being able to hold the iPad more like a book or a magazine in the portrait orientation and read text that way.

For my part, I noticed that prior to my iPad 3, I always had my iPad 1 cranked up to max brightness and always got strained eyes after reading for 8 hours each day. With my iPad 3, I now find I'm running it at half brightness and I do have noticeably less eye strain. Things are so sharp, and the contrasts and colors so rich on the display, I no longer feel the need to have the brightness maxed out. I think all these factors somehow combine to improve the overall experience. I'm also quite sure when the images becomes so much sharper and richer, we can actually increase the viewing distance, which helps ease the eyes as well.

and i have yet to see a single student that uses his/her iPad for intensive studying or reading for a long period of time.

See above. If you open your eyes, you can find lots of people who read with their iPads for hours at a time.

B&W eInk is still 100x better for reading books imo and distracts less from the main goal "reading"

Perhaps. But if your main goal is learning, then things like short videos, easy note-taking (with external kbd if desired), interactive exercises, and third-party educational apps (e.g., Wolfram's extensive library of math, physics, and engineering apps), you've got a winner for learning -- all in one package.

Kindle for BOOKS (the point of a Kindle is that u can focus on the main goal > reading, i dont need all the other stuff on a Kindle, thats what the iPad is for like u said)

Are you really finding eInk TEXTBOOKS for the B&W Kindle?