iPad mini is retina display a certainity ?

[srkmish]

Fair enough. Here are some recent articles that still show competitors having trouble trying to catch up to the popularity and sales of the Mini. Not to mention that the article I posted in the previous post about iPad Mini making up roughly 60% of the iPad revenue was for 2013, not 2012.

http://bgr.com/2013/09/27/8-inch-tablet-sales-ipad-mini/#comments

Also on competitors, the following article is showing that Android has taken the lead in sales, but also states that both the iPad and the Mini remain the best-selling models of tablets out at the moment.

http://t.nbcnews.com/technology/android-overtakes-ipad-tablet-race-8C11278308

Are specs going to be better for new competitors? Of course. The iPad Mini is what? A year old already? A year for newer tablets to come out with better specs to compete with it.

I mean, take it from a PC perspective. If I want a small tablet to be my PC, do I want an iPad Mini, or do I want, say, an Iconia W3. A W3 has full Windows 8 on it, and Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 built in for less than $400. But it has flaws, just like the iPad Mini does. However, from that perspective, I would go for the W3 because it can effectively replace my PC and do many of the things iOS cannot do, such as use USB peripherals, run Windows applications without Remote Desktop, etc etc.

On the other hand, iOS has a lot of support from a lot of people, from apps to accessories. Microsoft's store isn't anywhere near the store the App Store is, or Google Play store, for that matter. And if you look at it from a gaming perspective, iOS is the way to go. Most iOS games come out on Android, for example, but not all. Some stay exclusive to iOS. So gamers who are actual gamers (not people who casually play Angry Birds all the time. I'm talking about the people who get games like Dues Ex, Doom, Final Fantasy V, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic) would go for iOS over Android and Windows.

Let's talk about accessories, too. Logitech keyboards. The iPad Mini has the Ultrathin Keyboard Mini, which works exceptionally well and I like it better than the Android keyboards for the fact that it is a magnetic dock for the iPad, essentially turning it into a mini laptop, whereas the first keyboards I saw from Logitech for the Android tablets stand in front of a propped tablet. There's nothing wrong with this, but I feel the Ultrathin Mini gives more convenience, essentially giving you one thing to carry, not to mention that is hinges on the Mini and folds together, making it carryable like a single book;.

Unfortunately, I found little other Logitech accessories for Android/W8 to compare it to.

From a spec perspective, the Mini will lose to many newer devices, but specs don't mean sales, necessarily. People like certain brands. iOS fans will keep buying iOS devices and the question will truly be who has the bigger user-base?

I have to disagree with you on the accessories part. Android tablets make much better laptops because android provides a mouse cursor which imo apple will never do. The convenience of using a tablet in laptop mode with both keyboard and mouse increases manifold and is much better for browsing. I am currently using mouse with my tablet as i type this . I will scroll down and click the submit reply button

 

[BerlingerT]

I have to disagree with you on the accessories part. Android tablets make much better laptops because android provides a mouse cursor which imo apple will never do. The convenience of using a tablet in laptop mode with both keyboard and mouse increases manifold and is much better for browsing. I am currently using mouse with my tablet as i type this . I will scroll down and click the submit reply button

That is a good point. I was not aware Android tablets had cursor capability. Can it do everything a PC mouse can like with selecting and copying text without the keyboard or tapping the screen?

I know that is one of the big things that I have to use my laptop for with certain sites, like trying to select coding for Paypal buttons.

 

[srkmish]

That is a good point. I was not aware Android tablets had cursor capability. Can it do everything a PC mouse can like with selecting and copying text without the keyboard or tapping the screen?

I know that is one of the big things that I have to use my laptop for with certain sites, like trying to select coding for Paypal buttons.

Copying text is very easy with mouse. You just click and hold the mouse for few seconds until the end points of cursor selection appear ( as u normally do via finger press and holding on an android device) and then select your range of text and click copy

 

[DisplacedMic]

For people like me, who are using the big iPad as a full replacement for the usage of a laptop, things look quite different. With retina, the Mini would become the better e-book reader. At the moment, I do not see one single quality - except easier transport - speaking for a Mini. The screen is just way to small for comfortable surfing or typing longer texts. And - at the moment - the resolution is suboptimal for reading e-books.
The innards are outdated, and I would be careful with investing hope into the idea of receiving software updates for the Mini 1 over a long period. The smaller overall size and lower weight of the iPad 5 will have an impact, too.
There are so many "I_am_sooo_happy_with_my_Mini"-threads - it does not take a title in psychology, to understand, what this really means: Desparately trying to feel better with having invested money into the inferior product. Isn't it a little bit mean, to mislead other people - just for feeling better with the own wrong decision?
The Mini is just a toy - but way too slow for good usage as a gaming device.

this is nonsense

 

[Gix1k]

There's no other reason to change it. I had the first one and sold it for a Nexus 7. Want to sell the Nexus for a retina mini only.

 

[srkmish]

For people like me, who are using the big iPad as a full replacement for the usage of a laptop, things look quite different. With retina, the Mini would become the better e-book reader. At the moment, I do not see one single quality - except easier transport - speaking for a Mini. The screen is just way to small for comfortable surfing or typing longer texts. And - at the moment - the resolution is suboptimal for reading e-books.
The innards are outdated, and I would be careful with investing hope into the idea of receiving software updates for the Mini 1 over a long period. The smaller overall size and lower weight of the iPad 5 will have an impact, too.
There are so many "I_am_sooo_happy_with_my_Mini"-threads - it does not take a title in psychology, to understand, what this really means: Desparately trying to feel better with having invested money into the inferior product. Isn't it a little bit mean, to mislead other people - just for feeling better with the own wrong decision?
The Mini is just a toy - but way too slow for good usage as a gaming device.

Are you serious man. Have you done gaming on the mini?. Its the best gaming device ever till now. Indie games, all graphically rich games running at smooth framerates are a treat. In fact, when the nexus 7 came out engadget produced a 3 page article comparing gaming on Nexus 7 1st gen vs Mini and mini came out with better framerates and detail as compared to N7.

I have to agree the screen resolution is crap. My 100$ tablet with 216 ppi beats its ass. Hence i read pdfs/comics on my Chinese tab and game on my mini.

Plus it is so lightweight that you can game on it for hours without feeling forearm strain.

 

[Tysknaden]

Yes. I understand. You can game on it for hours without feeling forearm strain.

Are you serious man. Have you done gaming on the mini?. Its the best gaming device ever till now. Indie games, all graphically rich games running at smooth framerates are a treat. In fact, when the nexus 7 came out engadget produced a 3 page article comparing gaming on Nexus 7 1st gen vs Mini and mini came out with better framerates and detail as compared to N7.

I have to agree the screen resolution is crap. My 100$ tablet with 216 ppi beats its ass. Hence i read pdfs/comics on my Chinese tab and game on my mini.

Plus it is so lightweight that you can game on it for hours without feeling forearm strain.

 

[Vanilla35]

are you serious man. Have you done gaming on the mini?. Its the best gaming device ever till now. Indie games, all graphically rich games running at smooth framerates are a treat. In fact, when the nexus 7 came out engadget produced a 3 page article comparing gaming on nexus 7 1st gen vs mini and mini came out with better framerates and detail as compared to n7.

I have to agree the screen resolution is crap. My 100$ tablet with 216 ppi beats its ass. Hence i read pdfs/comics on my chinese tab and game on my mini.

Plus it is so lightweight that you can game on it for hours without feeling forearm strain.

+1

 

[osofast240sx]

Well, I think that Apple pretty much has no choice but to release a retina mini -- considering the competition from other higher resolution 7 inch tablets. If they don't bump the resolution, it would be an embarrassment and a major PR fail. They are already late IMO.

They do have a choice, news flash the mini is a 8" tablet a different experience than current 7" tablets. Apples market share does not reflect they are late to anything!

 

[barkomatic]

They do have a choice, news flash the mini is a 8" tablet a different experience than current 7" tablets. Apples market share does not reflect they are late to anything!

The current model mini was released at a time when the competition wasn't so strong. If Apple releases another one without bumping the resolution then I believe you'll see their market share for smaller tablets fall. The screen is everything.

That being said, it's almost a certainty the next mini will be retina and all will be right in the world.

 

[osofast240sx]

The current model mini was released at a time when the competition wasn't so strong. If Apple releases another one without bumping the resolution then I believe you'll see their market share for smaller tablets fall. The screen is everything.

That being said, it's almost a certainty the next mini will be retina and all will be right in the world.

But when has Apple ever cared about marketshare. Apple business model far different from its so called competitors.