This is a discussion thread for the "Steve Jobs Was 'Very Receptive' to a Smaller iPad" story posted on the front page.
If Apple is going this route again, they're just going to end up a failure again like it was with Amelio.
I can see this happening. In fact, it may already be happening. The iPod Touch has been neglected for a while, and what I see is that they phase out iTouches for the iPad mini's, reason being the iTouch isn't making much money being at the same price as tablets, and since they'll HAVE to have some way to compete with the Nexus tablet, which are $200, AKA the same price as the current iTouch. I don't see how it'll not work, a cheap iPad mini will appeal to the same market that wants iPod touches, AND the market for smaller tablets, AND it appeals to iPhone owners, which the iTouch doesn't. More ways to make money, more bang for your buck (although I could see them release it at $250-300 instead of $200 like the iTouch), everybodies happy. Did I get it?
If there's one good thing about these court cases, it's the amount of leaked information we're getting.
What are you talking about? The company is completely different than how it was back in the early 90's for starters, and doing a smaller iPad won't ruin them. Steve was probably not very keen on the idea of a smaller tablet before because he thought the ideal size was the one the original iPad had, but then other companies released smaller ones, people showed enough interest, and then people at Apple, and apparently Steve as well with this new info, saw they had a market they could enter. If anything, this will just help them.
C'mon, bullcrud commercials, ideas like this, stocks dropping, no excitement in products, the company is going to die again.
1. The commercials were fine. They weren't meant to please you. They weren't perfect, but they aren't a good indicator of a company dying. If that were the case, Samsung and nearly every other tech company would have been dead years ago. 2. Ideas like a 7 inch iPad? Perhaps a 7 inch iPad is a bad idea. But how about a 7.85 inch iPad? That extra .85 inches does add up. 3. AAPL 4. No excitement in products? So shoving the amount of pixels in 30 inch monitors in to a 15 inch screen (or even a 9.7 inch screen) is boring from a technological stance?
