Talking in general now everything should believe the rumours when you see it
At the end of the day apple are out to make money probably apple have looked in to making a ipad mini but its not worth there while to do it making a ipad mini and it would but strain on there 9'7 iPads Apple wouldnt want to jeopardise there sales in anyway with a ipad mini they have enough to cope with brands on the market at the eg markete.gsamung,asus,sony,creative,arches,dell.fujitsu,toshiba,motorola
That enough to be coping with never mind making more products on the same brand and making them smaller