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I think it's so that the fingers holding the device don't obstruct the view/ don't get counted as touch event.
I’d be surprised if thumb rejection/palm rejection isn’t close to perfect by iPadOS 18.
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Ipad Mini is such a good size. My friend lent me his Mini2 when he borrowed money from me and used it for a good 6 months i think and it was marvelous. I didn't use it all that much but later got an Air 2 and used it maybe slightly less. Then I got an iPad Pro 11" but only used it for a while and don't really touch it too much anymore. I feel maybe an ipad mini I would use more. But the jelly scroll really has me urk…
> overwhelming with 5 sizes already. without jobs it's just a matter of time they go back to being "just an expensive dell" like before
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Screens come in standard sizes. It might simply be that they can't fit all the parts inside, including the battery, without making the device bigger than the standard screen size and so you get bezels. Bigger devices have more room in them and many of the parts are just the same size.
Are "standard" screen sizes really something you have to care about at Apple-scale?
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Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.
What keeps them addicted to their watch? I've never found a compelling use case where I'd willingly buy another Apple watch.
In many ways (no pun intended :-)) I would relate to having an iPad mini and a much much dumber phone which was just text/chat and voice. I have gotten there because I'm constantly in this weird tension between wanting a bigger screen on my phone because the app I'm using and wanting a smaller phone so that it is easier to pocket and carry around. A friend of mine did the folding screen phone thing and that has its a…
Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.
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only the 12 and 13 had mini sizes, so not really. unless you are counting the SE1 as mini
Dimensions: SE1: 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 Mini 13: 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.65 Counting the original SE as a mini is perfectly reasonable. It's also quite clearly what the grandparent comment was referring to.
The rule for the SE is that it always has the design of second most recent hardware design, regardless of size.
If Apple re-introduces a mini, that will be the first such 'cycle.'
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Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.
What keeps them addicted to their watch? I've never found a compelling use case where I'd willingly buy another Apple watch.
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Screens come in standard sizes. It might simply be that they can't fit all the parts inside, including the battery, without making the device bigger than the standard screen size and so you get bezels. Bigger devices have more room in them and many of the parts are just the same size.
Are "standard" screen sizes really something you have to care about at Apple-scale?
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So that they can release a successor model with thinner bezels. In reality this may be to (1) to keep costs down and (2) to distance the iPad mini from the more premium iPhone Pro Max. All in all, this device leaves me wondering who this is for? iPads are mostly used for media consumption, no matter how Apple wants to position them. Not sure why this necessitates AI hardware, but perhaps people really start using iPa…
Lots of aircraft pilots love the iPad mini. Ideal sized tool for having strapped to a yoke, or to one's knee.
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I am moving away from my phone to just using my Apple Watch/AirPods then pulling out the mini when I need something it can't cover.
I wish I could do this but I have yet to find a good Apple Watch replacement for owning and syncing music (rather than streaming it)