How is it 40% bigger than 7??? Better app market, sure. Better OS, it's a toss-up rather.
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'iPad Mini' Pricing to Begin at Approximately $329
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How is it 40% bigger than 7??? Better app market, sure. Better OS, it's a toss-up rather.
The 32gb Nexus 7 will be released next week for a 250 price point. The 16gb will be reduced to 200. That means, it would be over $120 extra, the 32gb will be $200 extra! It might be a 40 percent bigger screen, but it will have much less pixel density. Great you have more room on your screen AND you can see the individual pixels!
Better OS? VERY subjective.
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If you factor in the aspect ratio and the diagonal dimension, it is 40 bigger.
Well, lets see. Lets take for example the North carolina data center as part (note, part of) of iTunes is hosted there.
That center, one of many, cost a cool BILLION to build and about 120Million/a to run.
That is ONE of many.
Your 12.5 Million need how many decades or more to just pay the interest?
They are building there own solar and bio power plants to the tune of 100 Million to SAVE on otherwise higher electricity bills.
12.5 Million? Yeah, good for the company picnic.
40% more real estate at the comparitive size and screen ratio. Its a much bigger tab than the nexus.
Of course the other tablets don`t have retina displays. Retina is just a apple trade name for high DPI screens. Most of the competition has sharp >200 DPI screens.
As the owner of a black 32gb iPhone 5 and mid-2010 15 in Macbook Pro w/antiglare screen this is the perfect product for me. I don't need a full sized iPad given the size of my Macbook Pro. I don't think this will be the price. It will be $299. I will happily buy one.
Re: Quoting me and alleging one is incorrect - please confirm honestly that Foxconn have been in breach of Chinese Labour laws by employing underage persons in its Chinese assembly plants - Foxconn by the way being a Taiwanese factory.
Will you further confirm that the workforce at Foxconn's Chinese Assembly plants are underpaid and work excessive hours?
It matters not that the plant in question was not actually outputting for Apple, what matters is the fact that Foxconn engages in illegal work practices - as do many other businesses on the Chinese mainland.
Would you also confirm that Apple used to actually assemble/ manufacture its goods in Europe and the USA and the workers receive a reasonable salary for their work?
Can you confirm or deny, judging by your comments, that you are in favour of slavery, that you believe Chinese workers are subhumans and thus must be paid very low slave wages, that Apple presently makes excessive profits and that much of the work can be undertaken in the USA or Europe - this is very important given the labour input as an overall percentage of costs usually runs between 8-15% - basically do have a look at Economics 101 and please don't believe the neoliberal crap you are being sold.
Facts are facts old bean whether you like them or not - please refer to my other comments regarding my critique of Apple's business practices which are unethical unless you support slavery and huge unemployment in the USA and Europe all to feed the greed of the 1% - this being the reason Job;s hired Cook in the first place!!!!!
really???
no one owns the market dude! That's what they think until the day "the market" slaps them on the face and "voilá", the Apple is rotten! $329 is just too much for such a piece of crap and I bet they will not get away with that this time... and yes, I own apple products but NO, would never give that much for something like what the rumors are saying it will be like ...
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yea, yeah, the market ... they're gonna be so sorry if they put this thing at such a price level that soon are gonna have to "make up" numbers to keep the investors ... makes no sense
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Like Steve said "dead on arrival" ... for $329 starting price that is... there will be no stupid people enough to buy this and keep their profit margins ...
no one owns the market dude! That's what they think until the day "the market" slaps them on the face and "voilá", the Apple is rotten! $329 is just too much for such a piece of crap and I bet they will not get away with that this time... and yes, I own apple products but NO, would never give that much for something like what the rumors are saying it will be like ...
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yea, yeah, the market ... they're gonna be so sorry if they put this thing at such a price level that soon are gonna have to "make up" numbers to keep the investors ... makes no sense
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Like Steve said "dead on arrival" ... for $329 starting price that is... there will be no stupid people enough to buy this and keep their profit margins ...
It's really amusing how many people on the internet think they know so much more about markets and what will/won't sell than Apple... 
It has been pointed out many times that these prices are nothing more than Boy Genius Reoprt's speculation!
Calm down people.
Calm down people.
It's really amusing how many people on the internet think they know so much more about markets and what will/won't sell than Apple...
Companies make poor business decision ALL THE TIME. Look what Apple was doing before Steve Jobs took over. Sometimes people really do know more than the all mighty corporations.
Better OS for me. Also, it is 40% bigger in screen area.
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When did Steve jobs say this?
good point.
And for those purchasers,
I guess a better way to word it is fill up the device with new content.
I would assume most past book/video purchases have already been read and watched at least once. (?)
All that said:
I look forward to the announcement.
If they deliver decent specs- I'll pay a bit more for the device.
The FireHd is very nice- and the Nook HD looks very interesting, but at the end of the day- who am I kidding?
I want the Apple product.
Wow that's a bummer, I'm trying to decide whether to spend 119 for a kindle paperwhite or 329 for an iPad mini
The iPad mini is more versatile but the kindle is much cheaper and the primary usage will be reading.
I was eagerly awaiting my Paperwhite I've had on order since October 1st, until I read some reviews and did some research. Look at the uneven lighting on this pic below. To me, it's well worth twice the cost to get a screen I'm comfortable with, plus give me the option to use all my iOS apps I've downloaded over the years.
If the Mini is north of $299, though, I'll probably go for a Kindle Fire HD ($199, same resolution as my 13" MBP!).
I agree, if it's a 16GB model for $329, it's a decent price, though I want to wait till the _official_ event to really wrap my head around the price.
I have zero interest in a ~7-8" non-iOS tablet, specifically thinking of this for my little girl and maybe my parents (plus recommending it to my ILs). Once the real prices have been released, I'll consider the purchase (and recommendation) again.
$329 +is+ kind of an awkward retail price, "feels" like it would be better as an $x99 or $x49
I think it's strange that people keep calling this a 7" tablet, when the form factor and size are clearly different from the other 7.0" tablets on the market (e.g. Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire). It's really an eight-inch tablet, just like the iPad 3's 9.7" screen makes it a ten-inch tablet. I don't see why Apple would choose to be price-competitive with this larger device, where in this case price-competitive would mean "making no money".
With the Nexus price drop/size increase it starts to look even worse for Apple.
16GB: iPad $429
16GB: Nexus $199
That is 116% more
32GB: iPad $529
32GB: Nexus $249
That is 113% more
So it seems the iPad mini could be twice as much as the Nexus for the same amount of storage. The iPad mini may have bigger screen in terms of sq. in. but the Nexus has more pixels.