Apple CEO: We Will Never Create a 7-Inch Tablet

[zakislam]

Steve Jobs had also insisted a 7-inch tablet wasn't a great idea.

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[wannabepro]

Another Apple article.. This is like the 8th one today.

 

[edgewood112358]

Yep... an extra 0.9 inches on the screen diameter puts the ipad Mini in an ENTIRELY different league than plain old 7 inch tablets... not. Face it apple, the ipad mini is overpriced and offers no advantage over other 7 inch tablets other than the apple software ecosystem (and maybe apple build quality).

 

[freggo]

Will be interesting what screen resolution Google would offer on a 10" version.
Like it or not, Apple did set the bar on that one with the iPad 3.

 

[damianrobertjones]

[citation][nom]wannabepro[/nom]Another Apple article.. This is like the 8th one today.[/citation]

Yep and the Windows 8 articles are full of 10 year old kids with multiple accounts/changing account names slagging off a perfectly fine operating system. If it were not for the 'Charts' section I would not longer visit. It's becoming a joke

 

[killerclick]

[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]Will be interesting what screen resolution Google would offer on a 10" version.Like it or not, Apple did set the bar on that one with the iPad 3.[/citation]
It's been leaked, it's 2560x1600

 

[azraa]

Well, I despise Apple almost completely, but I think they have a point here.
They point mainly to the higher end of the PRICE spectrum (dont get me wrong, their stuff is garbage for its price) and as so, they surely have little market for a wallet-concious, performance/usd-seeker client, for which, at this point, the Nexus7 is the clear winner.

But he 7" mark is like the minimum for me (and I guess for the majority in this site). It serves its purposes just right, but when you are apple, and you point at a high price market, you have to make your product a premium (supposedly) and that goes along with size. Most of the other tablets in that price range never shrink, and rather, they are quite large. And I suppose we all like the status quo as it is.

 

[spartanmk2]

I like apple and sumsung products, but i have no use for a tablet. (of any size)

 

[spartanmk2]

Samsung, oops.

 

[Guest]

I wish I could go back to 1998 and experience the real Tomshardware again...

 

[Guest]

Tom's Apple

 

[tipoo]

Funny how they touted resolution over screen area while showing off the retina display, then when comparing the Mini to the N7 they switched over completely and forgot that the PPI is only 160 vs 220, showing off area vs resolution instead. And people ate it up.

 

[Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer]

In fairness...and it pains me to say this...if you do the math, the iPad Mini has a screen area of right about 30 inches. A 7", 16:10 tablet has a screen area of about 22". So, he has a point.

On the other hand, 8", 1024x768 Android tablets have been around a while, so he's being pretty selective when he compares the iPad Mini to legitimately smaller 7" tablets.

 

[Vladislaus]

Tim Cook is trying hide the fact that the product he created goes against what Steve Jobs said. Steve Jobs didn't mentioned that only 7 inch tablets are too small. He mentioned 10 inch was the minimum size for a good tablet.

 

[rosen380]

[citation][nom]edgewood112358[/nom]Yep... an extra 0.9 inches on the screen diameter puts the ipad Mini in an ENTIRELY different league than plain old 7 inch tablets... not. Face it apple, the ipad mini is overpriced and offers no advantage over other 7 inch tablets other than the apple software ecosystem (and maybe apple build quality).[/citation]

To be fair-- the difference is pretty big in terms of screen size.
A 7.9" 4:3 screen is 6.32x4.74, 30 sq inches total
A 7.0" 16:9 screen is 5.94x3.71, 22 square inches

Despite it being only an increase of 0.9 inches, it adds 36% to the total size of the display. A 50" TV has about 40% more surface area than a 42" TV... I guess there isn't a difference there either.

 

[rosen380]

Sorry, loaded the page a whiel ago, and didn't see the same point that Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer made...

 

[shqtth]

Just like how I will never buy another apple product.

 

[shqtth]

Yes its true Apple will never make an 7" tablet, they will make an overpriced 7" tablet for the iSheep. Who wants 0.9" longer wee wees since in life they lack that, but have extremely big egos because they think they are artists.

 

[bllue]

[citation][nom]edgewood112358[/nom]Yep... an extra 0.9 inches on the screen diameter puts the ipad Mini in an ENTIRELY different league than plain old 7 inch tablets... not. Face it apple, the ipad mini is overpriced and offers no advantage over other 7 inch tablets other than the apple software ecosystem (and maybe apple build quality).[/citation]
That extra 0.9 is just a weasel reason to charge more. It's pathetic.

 

[halcyon]

All I can say is it is a damned shame that all Android devices don't work as smoothly/fluidly as the SGS3. If they did it would be a different ball game. The SGS3 is the only Android device I've used (and I've owned and used several) that's as smooth as iOS. Samsung should really be proud of the SGS3. ...or maybe my Asus Transformer Pad Infinity is just not what it really should be...even with JellyBean. Perhaps the Nexus 7 is the definition of Android perfection that Apple is aiming for.

 

[bim27142]

back in the old days, people don't complain about "pocketbooks" being small and they still read it... so for me, a 7" tablet is just like reading a pocketbook...

honestly, i don't have any tablets and not even a smartphone (i guess i'm too old school huh) but when the time comes that i'm ready for it, i think i won't be getting no more than 7" as beyond that i already find it too big and too bulky to carry around...

phones (smartphones) nowadays are getting bigger and "wider" when like 10~12 years ago smaller was more superior (nokia 8310, 8350, 6510, 6110, etc...). i miss those days, small, simple, functional (from a mobile "phone" perspective)...

sadly nowadays, it's too high tech that all "gadget" features are all incorporated to a supposedly "mobile phone" device... smartphones it is but i guess i am still too dumb to use it...

 

[twelch82]

7"... 7.9"... Yeah, huge difference there.

Rather than a bigger screen, I'd like to see a 7" with a smaller bezel. The Nexus 7 can be held in one hand, but if they could shave a half-inch off the width, it'd be more comfortable.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, we won't make a 7" tablet. We'll just make a 7.00000000001" tablet. See?

 

[livingthedream]

Only Apple can say something that generates around 28-30% profit as "significantly less profitable". Yet Google only makes around $15 bucks on each Nexus 7...

 

[Pherule]

Meanwhile, my desktop monitor is 21.5 inch. I don't see a reason to downgrade to a smartphone, Apple or not.