wow, it's way more expensive than the nexus 7. $330 vs $200 for the bottom.
$200 Nexus 7 has 8Gb storage, iPad mini base model has 16Gb. I still think $330 is a little high though.
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Re: iPad mini
#32The resolution, they are putting retina displays in macbook pros but launch a tablet with non-retina display. Why?
Meh, 164 PPI isn't bad, and this resolution allows them to run legacy iPad applications unscaled.
isn't bad?
The original android g1 had greater PPI (180) than this thing.
Re: iPad mini
#33How 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 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!").
Re: iPad mini
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple competes on user experience. Not price, and certainly not specs.
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.
Re: iPad mini
#35How 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 to recreate the whole PC ecosystem, just around tablets instead. Good for their bottom line, which is, after all, Apple's goal here.
Re: iPad mini
#36The 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 single hand friendly than the iPad mini.
Re: iPad mini
#37It's gonna sell like hotcakes. Also, they probably just iced the iPod Touch.
Re: iPad mini
#38The resolution, they are putting retina displays in macbook pros but launch a tablet with non-retina display. Why?
My guess is they didn't do retina because it would introduce yet another resolution they would need to support and also it would add expense to an already not cheap build.
Re: iPad mini
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple competes on user experience. Not price, and certainly not specs.
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.
Re: iPad mini
#40Someone invent a screen that can change size already, sheesh.
a folding screen would be good. especially if the underside was also an eInk display
Yeah or maybe some way to stretch pixels closer or further apart being that you move your face further away from larger screens. Seems a little silly to have so many devices that do the exact same thing but just have different sized screens.