Apple CEO: We Will Never Create a 7-Inch Tablet
Steve Jobs had also insisted a 7-inch tablet wasn't a great idea.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has stressed that the firm will never create a 7-inch tablet. Late co-founder Steve Jobs had also stated that a tablet smaller than the original 9.7-inch iPad would be too uncomfortable for consumers, who apparently couldn't use their entire fingers to utilize the device.
Speaking during a conference call with investors, he said, "We would not make a 7-inch tablet. We don't think they're good products."
While the recently unveiled iPad Mini is a smaller tablet than the iPad 4, it still boasts a 7.9-inch display. The revised tablet is "in a whole different league," he said when referring to competition. The extra size of the device offers consumers considerably larger viewing area that isn't restricted and cramped like smaller devices such as Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD, the Apple executive said.
Its premium price, meanwhile, was also defended as Cook stated that the tablet is significantly less profitable than other products within its lineup. While Google's Nexus 7 has turned out to be a commercial success for the firm, it is reportedly planning a direct iPad competitor via a 10-inch Nexus tablet.

Like it or not, Apple did set the bar on that one with the iPad 3.
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
It's been leaked, it's 2560x1600
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.
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.
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.
That extra 0.9 is just a weasel reason to charge more. It's pathetic.
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...