No going to happen, Why would Apple do that and kill off new iPad!! It will be none retina for sure!!
Yes, I think so too. For the average consumer and taking into account the size of the iPad Mini a retina display would be overkill.
No going to happen, Why would Apple do that and kill off new iPad!! It will be none retina for sure!!
Still don't believe it, not till invitations are sent out. Timings wrong, pricing wrong, market place wrong etc etc....
I think by now we all know that the iPad Mini rumor is almost confirmed.
* The timing is perfect -- Christmas shopping season.
* The market looks good for a tablet this size. As far as I can tell the Nexus 7 and Kindles are proving this.
* We don't know what the price is. Obviously, that will have a huge impact on the success of an iPad mini.
It's a mistake to try to come to conclusions on this until we know the price. By the way, it does not have to cost more than an iPod Touch.
I have an ipad 3 and am struggling with the idea of owning the mini as well. I need it to serve a purpose. We shall see.
I would wait for the second gen with a retina display, but i will prefer this size over the regular ipad.
And finally, my little 3 year old sister would leave my iphone alone and kept playing angry birds on this thing.
no. apple can't do it. it has been proven through the history. they never compromise the price point. do you think that new ipad $499 is even cheaper? NO. you can buy laptop. apple is not amazon, google. so don't expect. I am sure that apple will fail, learn some harsh lesson in the end like if apple do something, everything will be just successful ********.
Timing is not perfect because of the current Apple lineup and it's pricing. The market is not right due to the same reason as Apple will as I stated charge a fortune for it.
And frankly you are a fool, no question, if you really are going to believe APPLE will sell a tablet PC for less then it's brand new iPod Touch it's spent time and money on developing.
I have even read several big name tech and gadget mags predict the same thing. it will NOT be cheap.
I would wait for the second gen with a retina display, but i will prefer this size over the regular ipad.
And finally, my little 3 year old sister would leave my iphone alone and kept playing angry birds on this thing.
It will have to be cheap because it has to compete in the marketplace. Apple can will also most likely reduce the pricing on the ipod touches when these come out to compensate for market changes and so they don't overlap as much. It's not the first time a company goes in the red in the beginning of production just to come out in the black a few months out of the gate. It's a gamble, but one Apple would surely win at.
This. You are in for a great disappointment if you expect apple to undercut the iPod.
I imagine a surprisingly low price for being Apple. If there's something Tim Cook knows his **** about, it's this.I'd go as far as to say that the low price will be the main attraction of the mini. I think Apple really wants to kill the lower end in the tablet business, and that they'll try to do it with an agressive pricing strategy to the point of being a device selling with their lowest profit margins yet. They'll have one device precision targeted for this, and they'll try to leave absolutely no room to compete. $199-$250 perhaps?
I expect pricing to start at $349-$399 for the iPad Mini and for it offer a retina display and the same higher level of performance offered in the iPad 3. Apple has no reason to need to offer a cheap alternative to the other tablets on the market when millions are more than willing to pay more for the iPad.
iPad usually gets its update in March-ish, not November.
I think it will be price at $350.
The Touch is $300 the lowest price point, so makes no sense have an iPad costing less than it.
I will predict now just like I predicted the iPhone 5 would have a totally new more powerful next gen SOC despite all the nay sayers stating No WAY would an iPhone have a better SOC then an iPad!
So I will predict IF an iPad mini is launched it will cost AT LEAST from $349. I would actually proclaim they will ditch the iPad 2 and replace it with this mini. IF they launch one.
They wouldn't DREAM of giving the iPad 3 the A6 yet, hahaha. What do you think they will do in March? The A6 will literally be the MAIN upgrade, (or possibly A6X) to the next iPad when it is released in March. Sorry to burst your bubble there.I'm going to make some predictions now, so when the Ipad mini comes out it will blow your mind how good my predictions are.
1. Hi-res screens are in. This will have a high resolution screen to mirror Apple's trend of adopting high-res for all their devices.
2. The ipad 2 is out. The ipad 2 is just a lower-res lower performance version of the ipad 3. No more need for the ipad 2, since this will replace it as the lower performance ipad.
3. It will not be priced to compete with the nexus 7 or kindle HD. The price will be $100 less than the current generation ipad.
4. It won't come with sandpaper.
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Forgot to add.
5. The ipad 3 will get a silent upgrade of its processor to an A6, or something similar.
Timing is not perfect because of the current Apple lineup and it's pricing. The market is not right due to the same reason as Apple will as I stated charge a fortune for it.
And frankly you are a fool, no question, if you really are going to believe APPLE will sell a tablet PC for less then it's brand new iPod Touch it's spent time and money on developing.
I have even read several big name tech and gadget mags predict the same thing. it will NOT be cheap.
Apple would be fools to sell for that price. It would all but kill their high-end iPad market, unless it was far inferior to the new iPad. I can't see Apple coming out with an inferior product just to sell to the low-end market. It's not in their DNA.
I see them releasing a high-end quality iPad with a small screen, and charging accordingly.