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Re: iPad mini

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Post by coob »

mbreese wrote: post #64
monkeyfacebag wrote: post #50

Apple stock is down on the news. Although I'm personally underwhelmed by this announcement, I'll bet analysts are more worried about the lower priced iPad cutting into margins than they are Apple's ability to ship them.

I doubt it. This is typical for Apple's stock. There is always a run up before an announcement, and a drop immediately after. It's the old adage: buy on the rumor, sell on the news. I wouldn't read too much into it. The only time I really pay attention to what the street thinks about Apple is when earnings are announced.

AAPL has dropped from 670 odd over the last few weeks. There is no pattern with announcements.

Re: iPad mini

#122

Post by untog »

jpxxx wrote: post #110
untog wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any discussion involving the terms "apple hater" or "apple fanboy" immediately disappears into a hole of stupidity. That said, Apple are inviting some of these comparisons. "More expensive", for example. The iPad Mini is more expensive than a Nexus 7, by a significant margin. Apple invited the comparison by comparing the two devices themselves on stage .

Google should be delighted. I've yet to find a "normal" who is aware that anyone else sells "iPads". And Amazon doesn't count, they sell "Kindles". No amount of competitive marketing seems to have brought the two product families into competition beyond "well I heard the iPad has books too but my friend loves her Kindle".

I'm yet to find a "normal" that watches Apple Keynotes, though.

Re: iPad mini

#123

Post by shortlived »

quux wrote: post #57

Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAjfUT8wZI

So what do you all say to the claim that r&d has proven that people will need to shrink their fingers to happily use a smaller touch device? I've used an iPad and an iTouch, and clearly the iPad is super comfortable. Is the mini, the smallest we can go and still have an easy to use touch interface?

Re: iPad mini

#124

Post by MartinCron »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #52
Rygu wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm really disappointed by the screen's resolution though. I don't even think I'm the only one. Cuz the (current) iPad has a 264 dpi screen, whereas the Mini has a 162 dpi screen.

It is odd with the iPad maxi and the iPhone both having retina displays that Apple didn't go with that out of the box for the mini. But maybe hamstringing the resolution is one of the ways Apple hopes they can nudge buyers over to the full size.

Can we agree to not say "iPad maxi" again? Thanks.

Re: iPad mini

#125

Post by tsieling »

Littleme wrote: post #84
SoftwareMaven wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally agree. I really like my iPad for a lot of things, but it has been disappointing for pleasure reading of books because it is just too heavy. Given that my primary use case will be reading, I now have to decide between a Kindle Paperwhite or the iPad Mini, with the one additional input that my kids would love to have another iPad in the house.

I use a Kindle for reading simply because of the lack of distractions. On the iPad I see notifications every time someone posts on Facebook, every time I get a new e-mail... it's hard to lose myself in the book.

I was running into the same problem, and ended up sending notifications for non-essentials to the lock screen but not elsewhere. It's made extended reading much more manageable.

Re: iPad mini

#126

Post by flomo »

matheusalmeida wrote: post #39
bluetidepro wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The poor specs lead to a poor UX, so I fail to see the difference.

Are you serious? A well designed ecosystem is much more important than trying to increase the number of gigahertz/megaflops every release. Just because a corvette is more powerful and way cheaper than a Ferrari/Porsche it does not mean that you will have a better experience than buying one of the latter.

The iPad 1 has serious usability issues due to the limited amount of RAM. After experiencing this, I would be nervous about the lifespan of an iOS device with only 512MB. On some level, specs really do matter.

Re: iPad mini

#127

Post by aes256 »

cheald wrote: post #85
blinkingled wrote: post #36

The app situation they highlighted vs Nexus 7 was pretty damning for Google although I have a feeling Apple cherry picked apps that make the N7 look especially bad. On the plus side for the N7, they screwed up on price though - for the ecosystem and build quality advantage may be a $50 premium would have been attractive esp for lesser screen resolution and older CPU/GPU. The N7 also feels like it should be more singl…

They did very much cherry-pick apps that run poorly on the N7. The equivalent would be demoing the N7 against an iPad running iOS apps that only have an upscaled iPhone variant.

Obviously there are cases in which the opposite is true and the interface on Android is better, but not many.

In my experience, Android apps on tablets are horrible. Apple has the upper hand here in controlling the hardware, and releasing the iPad mini with the same resolution as the iPad 2 was a really smart move. Instant compatibility with all existing apps.

Re: iPad mini

#128

Post by jiggy2011 »

jpxxx wrote: post #110
untog wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any discussion involving the terms "apple hater" or "apple fanboy" immediately disappears into a hole of stupidity. That said, Apple are inviting some of these comparisons. "More expensive", for example. The iPad Mini is more expensive than a Nexus 7, by a significant margin. Apple invited the comparison by comparing the two devices themselves on stage .

Google should be delighted. I've yet to find a "normal" who is aware that anyone else sells "iPads". And Amazon doesn't count, they sell "Kindles". No amount of competitive marketing seems to have brought the two product families into competition beyond "well I heard the iPad has books too but my friend loves her Kindle".

Nobody else could sell a product called iPad without getting sued.

Re: iPad mini

#129

Post by oe »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #52
Rygu wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm really disappointed by the screen's resolution though. I don't even think I'm the only one. Cuz the (current) iPad has a 264 dpi screen, whereas the Mini has a 162 dpi screen.

It is odd with the iPad maxi and the iPhone both having retina displays that Apple didn't go with that out of the box for the mini. But maybe hamstringing the resolution is one of the ways Apple hopes they can nudge buyers over to the full size.

Or maybe the happened to have factories that make the lower resolution screens very efficiently, which can now be used again.

Re: iPad mini

#130

Post by quux »

shortlived wrote: post #123
quux wrote: post #57

Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAjfUT8wZI

So what do you all say to the claim that r&d has proven that people will need to shrink their fingers to happily use a smaller touch device? I've used an iPad and an iTouch, and clearly the iPad is super comfortable. Is the mini, the smallest we can go and still have an easy to use touch interface?

iPad mini has the same dpi as the non retina iPhones, and nobody had trouble tapping on things.
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