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New Photos Show 'iPad Mini' Physical Mockup in Hand
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Apple iPod is Looking so good and I like this size this size is very comfortable in use any where any time.
Like all the android tablets outselling the iPad??
My point was that this is perfect for sticking in you "purse" or whatever and reading books etc.
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It will be $299 - $350 i expect.
I can pretty much guarantee that. See? Generalizations = bad
I like generalizations. I find them useful. You just can't rely on them 100% of the time.
For example, I live in Japan. If I see someone who looks Japanese, they probably are Japanese, and I can speak Japanese to them. This is a generalization that isn't true 100% of the time (there are lots of Chinese and Koreans and other foreigners of Asian ethnicity in Japan) but it's useful for my everyday life.
The problem with generalizations is that they aren't true for every single individual being generalized. That's OK. That's not the purpose of a generalization. When marketers focus on the demographic of e.g. 18-35 year old males, they don't think that ONLY 18-35 year old males will buy the product, or that ALL 18-15 year old males will buy the product, only that there's a GREATER LIKELIHOOD that a random 18-35 year old male will be more interested in the product, and/or have more disposable income, than a random person from outside that age range and gender.
I think generalizations--about people and things--are extremely important for making sense of the world. No generalization is true 100% of the time (although that itself may be a generalization) but they might help us guess correctly some or most of the time.
I like generalizations. I find them useful. You just can't rely on them 100% of the time.
For example, I live in Japan. If I see someone who looks Japanese, they probably are Japanese, and I can speak Japanese to them. This is a generalization that isn't true 100% of the time (there are lots of Chinese and Koreans and other foreigners of Asian ethnicity in Japan) but it's useful for my everyday life.
The problem with generalizations is that they aren't true for every single individual being generalized. That's OK. That's not the purpose of a generalization. When marketers focus on the demographic of e.g. 18-35 year old males, they don't think that ONLY 18-35 year old males will buy the product, or that ALL 18-15 year old males will buy the product, only that there's a GREATER LIKELIHOOD that a random 18-35 year old male will be more interested in the product, and/or have more disposable income, than a random person from outside that age range and gender.
I think generalizations--about people and things--are extremely important for making sense of the world. No generalization is true 100% of the time (although that itself may be a generalization) but they might help us guess correctly some or most of the time.
I completely understand generalizations for marketing purposes. I work in advertising/marketing, and demographics are hugely important. But in everyday life, generalizations can easily become stereotypes, and that's not a good thing. This conversation didn't start because of a statement like, "Women tend to buy less graphically-intense games, and those might run better on an iPad Mini." This was that pretty much only women would buy an iPad Mini because they just play cutesy games and browse the web and don't need a more powerful device. In reality, there's a vast number of males that have the same behaviors.
I found this online, and it probably explains it better than I can in my own words. "Stereotype: A fixed, shared opinion of a group that allows for no individuality. They key difference between a generalization and a stereotype is that while generalizations describe behavior, stereotypes predict the behavior of individuals in a group. Unlike generalizations, stereotypes are often not altered in the face of new and contrary evidence."
So yes, they can be useful, but using generalizations to make seemingly derogatory remarks isn't a good habit to get into. And we geeky women do occasionally get offended when guys assume that since we're female we don't understand technology or care about it.
That's one way. I was actually thinking of VoIP over the iPad to replace the phone function all together. I have been using talk atone for the last week on my iPad 2 with my google voice number and it works well.
However, after seeing it today, I'm going to have to get the 5. I am actually thinking it may let me ditch the iPad, opposite of my original plan.
It's reportedly the same resolution as the iPad 2, but in a smaller form factor - meaning the dpi will be greater than the iPad 2 (but likely not as high as the iPad 3). Someone who has the time can work out all of the math, but the point is that "Retina" is just a term Apple made up that basically just means "really high dpi." The iPad Mini will be an improvement over the iPad 2 in this area.