Report: Apple to Unveil iPad Mini in October

[JMcEntegart]

Could Apple be prepping two new products for the end of 2012?

Report: Apple to Unveil iPad Mini in October : Read more

 

[Shin-san]

I was about to say: I have seen small Android tablets and they are kind of neat. The high screen res makes them usable.

 

[wolley74]

So a larger iPod Touch? sad part is it'll sell like hotcakes

 

[gulmat]

Sad prediction: Apple thinks the nexus 7/galaxy tab 7 look "similar" to the ipad mini, apple sues everyone, apple wins(let's hope not) Rinse and repeat...

 

[husker]

It is fascinating how all the painstaking R&D that went into making the iPad the perfect size is suddenly rendered irrelevant. Just like how, suddenly, the concepts behind the Windows OS were apparently wrong and what we really wanted all along was just a giant mobile phone screen. I understand the role marketing has in convincing people to buy new things, but they really are getting shameless in how they think we all have "etch-a-sketch" memories. Companies are now beginning to promote "paper billing" as a new way to connect to customers, after shoving paperless billing down our throats.
/end rant

 

[husker]

It is fascinating how all the painstaking R&D that went into making the iPad the perfect size is suddenly rendered irrelevant. Just like how, suddenly, the concepts behind the Windows OS were apparently wrong and what we really wanted all along was just a giant mobile phone screen. I understand the role marketing has in convincing people to buy new things, but they really are getting shameless in how they think we all have "etch-a-sketch" memories. Companies are now beginning to promote "paper billing" as a new way to connect to customers, after shoving paperless billing down our throats.
/end rant

 

[halcyon]

I love my 3rd gen iPad don't see the benefit of a 7" version. When I want all of this in a smaller package I use my iPhone. I guess there's a demand?

 

[tomfreak]

A chance for 1billion goes back to Samsung.

 

[yobobjm]

And now we start the patent wars....

 

[hotroderx]

[citation][nom]gulmat[/nom]Sad prediction: Apple thinks the nexus 7/galaxy tab 7 look "similar" to the ipad mini, apple sues everyone, apple wins(let's hope not) Rinse and repeat...[/citation]

The sad part is it will not matter the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Tab 7 where out first. I still wonder how much pressure Apple put on the state of California to make sure the jury ruled in there favor.

The above is speculation but hey when your as rotten a company as apple then its to be expected. All the Apple lovers out there I got one question before you down rate my post. Name one item Apple really invited?

Not something they stole not something they copied, not something they bought the company who designed it out after the fact. Something they truly 100% came up for in house.

 

[jay2tall]

Didn't Apple once say the iPad was the perfect size and anything in size between the iPad and iPhone was unnecessary or something of that nature? Apple is the worst company with the best marketing. It's shameful that it works on so many people. I used to simply not like their products, however, now with the Samsung non-sense lawsuits I just despise them as a company. Google needs to release a new Android version that will just toast Apple, and then dub it "Applie Pie". That or Microsoft just has to bring out their boom stick!

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]HotRoderx[/nom] Name one item Apple really invited?[/citation]

I think they really invited the iPhone. ...and it came and brought a host of friends with it.

 

[bllue]

Buy a Kindle fire or similar Android tablets. If you want a 10 inch, save for the Surface tablet coming out in October. Don't give Apple your money

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]bllue[/nom]Buy a Kindle fire or similar Android tablets. If you want a 10 inch, save for the Surface tablet coming out in October. Don't give Apple your money[/citation]
Unless like a bazillion people agree with you Apple won't even notice because they'll still be making like a gazillion trazillion dollars.

 

[subaru41]

Shouldn't the article read - Apple plans to copy Android in October.

 

[kcorp2003]

 

[bigdragon]

Quick! Google, Samsung, and ASUS get a design patent on 5, 7, and 9 inch tablets. Hey, if Apple can patent the rectangle and steal the concept of slide to unlock from the inventor of the restroom stall then Google, Samsung, and Asus can patent rectangles in the sizes of 5 to 9 inches. Why let just Apple grab up all the obvious patents? The patent system is still the same one that granted Oracle the exclusive ability to range check so I don't see getting patents on smaller tablets to be much of a challenge. Complaining about the patent system doesn't help so let's overwhelm it with stupid crap until it fails!

 

[freggo]

iPad Mini... sounds like something every girl needs once a month

 

[hotroderx]

[citation][nom]halcyon[/nom]I think they really invited the iPhone. ...and it came and brought a host of friends with it.[/citation]


I am sorry the iPhone is basically a touch screen phone or a Smart Phone depending on how you wanna spin it.

They where not the first company to make a touch screen phone. Unless Steve Job's some how invited a time machine and was able to travel back in time invent the Iphone in 1994 then magically bring it to the present.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-29/before-iphone-and-android-came-simon-the-first-smartphone

This would be the first touch screen smart phone.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-29/before-iphone-and-android-came-simon-the-first-smartphone

Before a Apple fan boy says the Ipod

I submit this to you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_Kramer

 

[jdog2pt0]

So...they're copying the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7? Do I even have to say it? Sue the piss out of them!

 

[Cons29]

so Apple, anything smaller than the current Ipad is too small huh?
stealing is wrong? who got the notification bar first??

 

[sonofliberty08]

i think i saw the viewsonic viewpad 7 out on the market first

 

[clubsaucekiller]

[citation][nom]sonofliberty08[/nom]i think i saw the viewsonic viewpad 7 out on the market first[/citation]

The one that made people nauseous if they used it in portrait mode?

 

[mechanus]

Its a good thing they want to release the iPad mini. It'll give apple customers a wider range of tablet PC sizes to choose from.

 

[cknobman]

Report: Apple can f_ck off. I'd go back to a tablet of paper with a pen before I would buy a f_cking douchebag apple product.