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Introducing...the iPad Mini!
Speculation is already heating up about a successor to the iPad after Apple's blockbuster announcement yesterday. If past experience is any guide the Apple team is already working feverishly to see if they can pack all of that 'magical' technology that Steve Jobs showcased on stage yesterday (multi-touch, internet browsing, fast rendering...) into a smaller form factor. While some technologists are skeptical that it can be done, others point to the evolution of the iPod and iPhone as proof that Apple will stop at nothing to make the iPad smaller and slimmer – even imagining a day when the iPad might actually fit into your pocket! These rumors are gaining steam after this image was leaked last night of secret designs for a new iPad Mini to hit the market in 2011.
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I know that the iPad is less
M - January 28, 2010
I know that the iPad is less than we expected. Somehow, it is just an expanded kindle. And as such, making it smaller defeats the purpose of getting traditional readers (meaning those who still want the experience of reading an actual book) to buy it.
I do not own a kindle and reading an ebook in my ipod is a little difficult. So having an ipod the size of a kindle that can store and play pics, music, etc, surf the net, act as a productivity device, is good enough for me.
If they manage to make it store at least 500GB and keep the price at $499, then I'm sure I'm one of the people who would buy it.
Making it a drawing device with an actual tablet pen, for Autocadd and 3dmax or sketchup, would up the iPad's value for me.
I don't understand why frog
Thomas - January 28, 2010
I don't understand why frog designers are so consistently down on the iPad in this and other blog posts on this site and elsewhere. I honestly don't see any substantive criticism here, just vague smirkiness. It's like you guys have some kind of axe to grind but you won't come out and admit what it is.
iPad mini
Andrew Power - January 28, 2010
Nice antidote to the hysteria, and true too, really.
But from a lot of comments, I don't see that people 'get it'. The iPad's not simply a Kindle, or an iPod Touch on steroids - it's a gateway drug to media, connectivity and creativity.
has potential
buck - January 31, 2010
i think if they beefed this up, changed the macbook to a tablet this would work. meaning, a bit more power and has a camera and has the full blown osx then i would be more interested. i would pas 1200 for that. 500 for what this is right now, i dont' get it. i try to see but i don't.
Why?
Mandi - February 9, 2010
Some say this iPad is like a Kindle which I can see and understand, but why would people who enjoy reading real books (with paper pages) want to read the book online? Why not just buy the book and read it and actually have the feel of turning a page...oh wait i mean and actally have a page to turn...