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Why Apple's 7.85-Inch 'iPad Mini' Isn't a 7-Inch Tablet
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I don't get the bezel hate. It's like you read an article on any tablet, and sooner or later, someone will bring up how the bezel is stupid and should be smaller.
"I saw a picture of the new iPad the other day, and it still has that ABSOLUTELY USELESS BEZEL! I hate how Apple put a space around the screen that I can grip without directly touching the screen because that's totally stupid and the screen could be bigger without it or something and OH GOD IT JUST MAKES ME SOOOOO MAAAADDD".
The rumor has been consistently linking the smaller iPad using the in-cell technology to reduce the bezel, which makes a lot of sense since it'll mostly solve the width problem.
I am ready for my multi-touch TABLETOP COMPUTER!!
BRING IT APPLE.
(and yes, it's amazing how nobody has really done this yet, when the technology is fully there...yet Apple makes these tiny devices like the iPhone and iPad -- a full-size multitouch computing environment of a desktop scale would be a revolutionary product that could birth a new generation of computing as we know it.)
BRING IT APPLE.
(and yes, it's amazing how nobody has really done this yet, when the technology is fully there...yet Apple makes these tiny devices like the iPhone and iPad -- a full-size multitouch computing environment of a desktop scale would be a revolutionary product that could birth a new generation of computing as we know it.)
If you knew anything about steve you would know he was known to change directions if convinced it was the best idea.
january 2013 will be like january 27, 2007 what say?Of course its the new Tab Remote for the New Apple TV!
This, totally agree, when you look at the Fire and Nexus 7, they are great for holding one handed, that mock up would never allow you to comfortably do that.
I'm sure their were, but $150 for an Apple iPad? Don't think so, unless Apple wishes to damage sales for ALL it's iPod's?
Just look here:
http://store.apple.com/us
iPod Touch from $199
iPod Nano from $129
iPod Classic from $249
So what do you think would happen to the sales of those devices if Apple launched a $150 or $200 or even $250 iPad? Apple is many things, but it isn't stupid.
To me, Gruber misses the point completely. That the iPad mini is not a 7" tablet is a negative. Then again, to each his own. For me, however, 4:3 will never do it for me (at least not above 5" or so, not sure at what exact point 4:3 becomes too big to carry; 7.85", however, is definitely beyond that point).
apple needs to crush competition, same thing happened in ipod and ipod killed crappy mp3 toys back then, now they need to crush android based crap in the market, and giving customers the choice and experience that only apple has, what say?
Like Microsoft's former Surface (now PixelSense)?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx
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It will still be wider then the Nexus 7 and it still needs to have a bezel to help you hold it, not very easy to hold something with just a touch screen covering the entire front surface with no bezel.
People just don't understand area. They think 7 must be about the same thing as 7.85. Why, it's only 0.85 bigger! Steve was wrong!
I don't get the "Apple must crush Android" talk. Why must it crush anything? Aren't the people on this forum always talking about how choice is supposedly good?
do you seriously think they had retina tech ready to go on the ipad 2 but they "held out" so youd have to upgrade the next year? look at all the beef about the rMBP for gods sake, everyone saying they released it before the tech was ready (ridiculous as well).
man, theyre damned either way
Without Steve, nearly everything reasonable is permissible.
The beauty of Steve's thinking and today of Sir Ives is... reasonable isn't of interest. Going outside the safe zone is where the genius lies.
Every time I use my iPad my fingers constantly touch the screen.
7.85" at 4x3 with a bezel half the size would be perfect.
my point is, how would you hold it? your fingers would be touching the screen, constantly. the bezel is a place for your fingers to go.. maybe with in cell tech they can figure out a way around it. I can see it now, apple releases a thin bezel iPad and the forums fill up with comments like "how does apple expect me to use this when all i do is hold it and my fingers trigger all kinds of things. I guess im 'holding it wrong'"
Also of note: the 9.7” iPad has about the same square inches of display as those 10.1” tablets. They have a narrow shape that sounds better on paper than in practice, for most tasks.
10.1” widescreen tablets are 45.8 sq. in.
9.7” iPad is 45.2 sq. in.
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10.1” widescreen tablets are 45.8 sq. in.
9.7” iPad is 45.2 sq. in.
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there are PLENTY of people who can afford apple products. are you aware the very computer you just typed this on is a RIDICULOUSLY expensive product for a lot of people in the world?
yes choice is good not the idea of flooding the market with prod like kindle fire n other tablets that never took off, imagine folks who bought these products, what value it holds? now compare all that to original ipad, the ipad1 its still more valuable then all these half-assed products combined