The best priced tablet out there right now is the Barnes and Noble Nook HD+. 9 inches, 1920x1200, for 269 bucks!
If it ran vanilla Android, it would have been a no-brainer for many of us.
iPad mini
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Re: iPad mini
#92Why does it cost more than the Kindle Fire HD but has way worse specs? Apple have shot themselves in the foot with this launch. I'm so disappointed in the iPad Mini.
Apple competes on user experience. Not price, and certainly not specs.
Apple loves to compete on specs when it's suitable. Size, weight, resolution, ppi, processor and gpu speed -- everything.
Of course, it's not like the two concepts UX and specs were independent; all of these things have an impact on the user experience, along with many others.
Re: iPad mini
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
The poor specs lead to a poor UX, so I fail to see the difference.
I think you are not Apple's target user. I, personally, would buy the Kindle Fire. Most people, however, will buy the iPad Mini. Bigger price and all. Curiously enough, I think the iPad 2 has just become the most compelling tablet in the market in terms of price/specs/performance. I'm wondering if iPad 2 will eat into sells of the new iPads? And would Apple care? Anyway, interesting times.
They sell only the 16 GB version of iPad 2 (and have been, since iPad 3 was announced), so the answer is no. Definitely not.
Re: iPad mini
#94Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAjfUT8wZI
"you can't just scale down the interface"
oops
Re: iPad mini
#95How underwhelming. At 7.9 inches, it’s perfectly sized to deliver an experience every bit as big as iPad What does that even mean? Either it's perfectly sized, and the iPad is the wrong size. Or it's not. There can surely only be one perfect size to deliver an iPad experience??? Either it's 10" or it's 7.9". I think Apple's marketing has always been the same - it's just that for a while they were ahead of the curve a…
Underwhelming is the operative word. Apple's product iterations get more boring with each upgrade. Classic innovator's dilemma. The iDevice line-up sells too well to change the formula, but there's no wow factor anymore. I always figured at some point they would slap a proper navigation UI on the ipad (the icon grid offers a really poor ux), but i suspect they'll stick with evolutionary steps for years to come.
I'm probably still buying the mini. It may be boring, but its still the best of its competitors. Only microsoft's stuff might make me reconsider. I've been really impressed by the lumia phones, which have a better UX than the iphone in my opinion. I can imagine a tablet with windows rt being a joy to use as well.
Re: iPad mini
#96How underwhelming. At 7.9 inches, it’s perfectly sized to deliver an experience every bit as big as iPad What does that even mean? Either it's perfectly sized, and the iPad is the wrong size. Or it's not. There can surely only be one perfect size to deliver an iPad experience??? Either it's 10" or it's 7.9". I think Apple's marketing has always been the same - it's just that for a while they were ahead of the curve a…
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Re: iPad mini
#97How underwhelming. At 7.9 inches, it’s perfectly sized to deliver an experience every bit as big as iPad What does that even mean? Either it's perfectly sized, and the iPad is the wrong size. Or it's not. There can surely only be one perfect size to deliver an iPad experience??? Either it's 10" or it's 7.9". I think Apple's marketing has always been the same - it's just that for a while they were ahead of the curve a…
I guess it opens the market to more people (by being less expensive,) but absolutely underwhelming. A desktop computer that's thinner (who cares how thin the desktop is?) and a smaller iPad. It's getting confusing know just what to buy anymore, each variant of iOS device has a myriad options, it's getting more like the old Dell customize your PC selection, memory, network type, display size. I guess Apple are trying…
There's a world of difference between "Configure with NVidia GTX 8800 or NVidia GTX 9500+ OEM Edition?" and "Do you want black or white?"
Re: iPad mini
#98The best priced tablet out there right now is the Barnes and Noble Nook HD+. 9 inches, 1920x1200, for 269 bucks! If it ran vanilla Android, it would have been a no-brainer for many of us.
I have a Nook tablet and like it except for the fact that I can run only B&N blessed apps (of which there are so few).
Re: iPad mini
#99>There's less of it, but no less to it. I must say, I've consistently been impressed with Apple's copy writing.
I might be too Danish to get it but I for one can't stand the full-of-ourselves copy and acting in those videos. I buy many of their products so you might argue that they work anyway but it feels to me like I buy them in spite of the marketing.
Exactly. I cringed so much during that live event because of all the 'amazing', 'great', 'innovative', 'beautiful' word dropping, I paused it a couple of times just to yell at the screen (but maybe that's just me)
Re: iPad mini
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I say this with absolutely no judgement regarding the value of the iPad Mini, but I'm struck by the similarity between this criticism and the criticism leveled against the original iPad ("it's just a giant iPod Touch!").
He's not criticising the product, he's criticising the marketing.
Read the front of an Everglade spray can. I think it says "The Essence of Nature". Then read the back. The back is full of skulls...
While I agree some of the texts on the iPad mini page could have been better written, it's as usual just marketing speak designed to push interested customers that extra cm they need to do a purchase.