I don't think we'd be seeing these articles at all if it wasn't for the Nexus 7.
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Smaller iPad Costing "Significantly Less" Than $499 Coming This Fall, According to NYT
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I don't think we'd be seeing these articles at all if it wasn't for the Nexus 7.
Looks like I'll need to save up a lot for this fall. A smaller iPad would be perfect. New iPhone and new iPad.....sorry wallet.
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Since the iPad 2 is $399 and I'm expecting the mini to be about the same but just with a smaller screen I'm guessing it will be $299.
Oh, good - there's the mockup picture!
I hadn't seen it for a few days, so I was worried MacRumors had misplaced it.
I hadn't seen it for a few days, so I was worried MacRumors had misplaced it.
Not very excited- going directly against the wishes of the wise Steve Jobs.
Hopefully Tim is right about this.
Hopefully Tim is right about this.
Well, Cook, that product pipeline has just been slapping lg's and samsung's retina's on a mac and an ipad so far, spec bumps to the notebook line up, same old boring imacs, and same old boring iphone two year old (with antennae fix) design...we are really waiting to be amazed here...
I hope it's not the tv set, cause not everyone is that hot about that's been referred to as product pipeline.
As for the ipad mini, I am in the market for one, I like this form factor and it makes me do away with other devices, although to be honest android in terms of software development seems like a better platform right now from the stagnant ios.
I really don't know however why google decided to shoot themselves in the foot and not include an sd card slot. This has got to be one of the dumbest decisions in hardware manufacturing in recent memory. Here your competitor who's already established in the market is about to release a new product, you finally brand your own tablet, and instead of giving yourself the one advantage the other guys don't have, the expandability of the storage to finally get some more people in the platform, and have storage to buy your wares from the play store, you give them storage levels that are non expandable and piss poor for having anything other than a few books and apps in the device.
Dumb, dumb, dumb decision by google.
I guess the market needs the bad ass bold fat boy from redmond and his ms troop to show them a thing or too. Ms is making the biggest come back in computer history via tablets. Mark my words boys. Balmer will finally become a success story in the consumer space.
I hope it's not the tv set, cause not everyone is that hot about that's been referred to as product pipeline. As for the ipad mini, I am in the market for one, I like this form factor and it makes me do away with other devices, although to be honest android in terms of software development seems like a better platform right now from the stagnant ios.
I really don't know however why google decided to shoot themselves in the foot and not include an sd card slot. This has got to be one of the dumbest decisions in hardware manufacturing in recent memory. Here your competitor who's already established in the market is about to release a new product, you finally brand your own tablet, and instead of giving yourself the one advantage the other guys don't have, the expandability of the storage to finally get some more people in the platform, and have storage to buy your wares from the play store, you give them storage levels that are non expandable and piss poor for having anything other than a few books and apps in the device.
Dumb, dumb, dumb decision by google.
I guess the market needs the bad ass bold fat boy from redmond and his ms troop to show them a thing or too. Ms is making the biggest come back in computer history via tablets. Mark my words boys. Balmer will finally become a success story in the consumer space.
I agree. In my opinion the original sized iPad wasn't the best for a portable e-reader. It's the same reason why I prefer small paperback books instead of giant hardback books when there were no e-readers.
The price of the current iPad is too high to be used mainly as an e-reader but if the mini iPad is $199 like the others then more people might be willing to buy it just for reading and other media.
I'll take one of those thank you. Not been able to justify a full size one because my laptop is always with me but cheap is good
My thoughts exactly!! If the price came in around the $249 mark and that's a big "IF". The apple eco-system ~ video, music, photo's, email, web browsing, etc. plus a potentially very nifty little universal remote to de-clutter the coffee table.
And won't have weeks of battery life.
I'm hoping this tablet comes out, and I will be buying one if it does - but I'm not throwing away my Kindle 3.
I would use an iPad Mini more than I think I would a regularly sized one. I would think that typing would be much easier/ similar to the iPhone thumb typing style, and several games already available could really take advantage of this. A never-ending rumor, I know, but here's to hoping it's true this time.
This. I enjoy the current iPad and have no difficulty typing, but if it were just a tad smaller I could type even faster.
Yeah, maybe use this one. It might not be right, but at least it's different.
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Pretty much sums up the post-PC pad computing market. Apple is way over 50% already. Good luck to everyone else.
It will be fascinating, in a driving-slowly-past-a-train-wreck way, to see if and when Microsoft ever announces Surface pricing.
It really feels like they're waiting for several things to happen:
1. 3rd party Surface makers (if any) announce their prices, and
2. Apple either announces the iPad mini and its price (or doesn't), and
3. Nexus 7 sales numbers start to come in.
On the other hand, maybe Microsoft will never actually ship Surface. That would obviate any pricing announcement.
Ballmer has apparently pulled back from rolling Surface out as an actual product. He's said that "Surface is just a design point."
Maybe just to keep all those old-school PC OEM partners from calling in air strikes on Redmond, Washington.
Maybe just to have an "out" in case market studies show that Surface will completely fail no matter what the price is.
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Knowing Apple, everyone expected the first iPad to start at $999.
I 've been very disappointed with the dead slow development of e-ink or similar non light emissive tech. The ipad's success has stifled innovation for competitors. I am still dying to have on my hands a kindle dx with a proper parer contrast like screen and good dpi, maybe triton with colour too, although I don't care so much about colour. I was an early adopter of eink even before the kindle was out and like I said I am very disappointed with the non advancements.
I am afraid to say you are going to be eating your words in a year's or so time when the surface has been out for a while and microsoft are coming as a choo choo train blasting through the tablet arena. Provided they don't shoot themselves in the feet somehow. Remind me to remind you what you were saying when the time comes.
Don't underestimate the redmond giant, even a sleeping giant is still a giant, and they have been rudely awakened recently.You wish it would have that aspect ratio. The mockup you like to complain about is a lot more realistic.
I never thought it would actually come true. It's time to throw away my first iPad. Its just awfully slow.
Actually i would disagree because of the poor amount of vertical space in landscape orientation. This will display the same amount as a full sized ipad in landscape just slightly smaller. That is a win to me
I like this idea, too, but for a more diabolical reason.
Right now, to most people, a "tablet" is an iPad. If Apple is really smart, they won't dignify the competitions 7" tablets by naming their smaller tablet an iPad at all. For if they did so it would only serve to legitimize these half-sized touchscreen devices and dilute the iPad brand as a whole.
Making it part of the iPod Touch family would much more clever, and would leave Google and Amazon with iPod Touch category devices-- not the iPad "tablet" competitors they thought they were selling (at cost).
