Thread: iPad-Mini Rumor
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torifile
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2012-05-05, 23:05

I think we can all safely say 2 things:

1) If Apple makes a 7" tablet, it will sell like crazy.
2) If Apple makes a 7" tablet, we can assume it will be because they believe the disadvantages of that size are outweighed by the advantages.

I don't think that Apple is concerned about sales. Really. They know that if they make excellent products, they will sell a boatload. That type of thinking could sink a smaller shop - tech history is littered with examples of better products losing out to worse competitors - but Apple is kind of big enough that they don't need to worry about that type of thing.

I haven't really seen a coherent list of the drawbacks to a 7" tablet, so why don't we start one:

- text size would require frequent zooming
- ?? (Seriously, I don't know what other disadvantages there would be).

Advantages:

- portability
- cost
- marketshare (?)

Could that one disadvantage be enough to kill it? Perhaps but the only way for us to know for sure would be to have a device in hand actually try it out. As we all know, they're doing that as we speak. If we don't see one this year, we won't.

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