Comments on: Why an Apple iPad mini will cripple the efforts of Google, Amazon and anyone else in the mini tablet market

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:16:37 +0000

In the case of an iPad ‘mini’, I don’t see it as anything but a dead end. I see no point. I see no one at all selling their ~7″ OtherPads with any profitability. I don’t see Apple doing much more than cannibalizing a small part of their iPad sales for the sake of not much profit, if any at all.

Simply dumping a product into a perceived market is outrageously IGNORANT. Apparently I’ve got a lot more experience in business, as opposed to dopey biznizz, than you. Then again, I constantly expect to be wrong, seeing as We Never Know Everything About Anything – Me.

So, prove me wrong please! With SOMETHING! Don’t just wildly speculate then expect you know what you’re talking about.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:33:50 +0000

The biggest market for a 7 inch iPad will be enterprise users.

By: Norrin Radd

Norrin Radd — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:53:21 +0000

“new iPad” NOT “New iPad”!!!!

Gah!!!!!

By: opsono

opsono — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:22:03 +0000

Identifying as a mobile device will default to the mobile web site, many of which are very satisfying and very easy to use on an iPhone, for instance. So, keeping Safari is a no-brainer, and anyway, there is no way Apple would leave Safari off any web-capable device.

By: BamaNana

BamaNana — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:07:52 +0000

Then they will not be able to take on the other small tablets and e-readers. I don’t believe that you need to be cash-strapped to not want to shell out for 5 iPads at Christmas. I’m having a hard time understanding why some Apple fans are so threatened by a mini. It would open a whole new customer base for Apple. I wonder how many women would like a tablet that tucked neatly in their purse like the Nook or the Kindle does? I wouldn’t think of trying to read a book or magazine, or stream a movie, or surf the web on my iPhone. But a mini? I’m glad Apple is jumping in this market.

By: Macadelic

Macadelic — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:27:17 +0000

Are you blind? There’s never a market for anything. Apple MAKES the market. Theres never anything of value in a market before Apple joins.

By: 3l3c7ro

3l3c7ro — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:54:13 +0000

Why does every person who is cash strapped think that a smaller iPad will be so much cheaper? It will have a slightly smaller battery and screen but the same guts and assembly costs.

By: kayan

kayan — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:21:06 +0000

If Apple does release an iPad Mini, I hope they leave out Safari. All it would show is a jarring mix of full size websites that don’t fit much on the screen at a readable zoom level, and mobile websites filled with wasted and unused space. Web browsing is going to suck on this thing.

By: BamaNana

BamaNana — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:14:31 +0000

I love my iPad and couldn’t possibly live without it. I would LOVE to buy one for my kids and grandkids, but don’t have a great pile of spare cash that big laying around. The iPad Mini? I’ll take 5 on day one please!

By: MrJ

MrJ — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:02:47 +0000

iPad Mini? IWOOT.

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:47:55 +0000

Seeing as the ‘mini’ tablet market has never been more than LAME and profitless, BFD if Apple entered that vacuous ‘market’.

Again, again, again: I have yet to see ANYONE make a reasonable case for an actual, profitable market for ‘mini’ WhateverPads. It’s all hype and NO substance. Have fun with that.

LOSS LEADER ALERT!

By: twilightmoon

twilightmoon — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:09:40 +0000

If it’s 8 instead of 7 inches, then they won’t have to. It will be vastly larger. Far more surface area than one diagonal
Inch would lead you to believe.

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:59:13 +0000

I think that Apple should definitely try to make Samsung fail as payback for copying and stealing Apple’s IP. Apple can easily afford to add the iPad mini to its lineup so they might as well give it a shot. If it can increase Apple’s tablet market share by only a couple of percentage points, I think it would be worthwhile. Apple needs to force the competition to just give up going head to head with them and show the competition it won’t be profitable for them to stay int he tablet business.

I’d like to put to rest the constant nonsensical talk of how Apple is going to lose lots of tablet market share to competitors every quarter. Next quarter, supposedly the ZunePad is going to put pressure on Apple iPad sales, too.

By: leodavinci1

leodavinci1 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:20:41 +0000

“However, Apple’s aim would not be to nudge their own product out of the way. It would be to take on the smaller-tablet market.”

I am extremely dubious of this as a reason for Apple to produce a mini iPad. This is just a variation of the expression, “It is not enough that I win, but my enemies must fail.”

There is no indication that Apple works this way.

MS, on the other hand…

By: Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:00:33 +0000

Just so long as MDN puts “tiny-screen” in every iPad mini headline!

By: greggthurman

greggthurman — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:48:43 +0000

One of the better articles about the stickiness of Apple products. The reasoning on a smaller iPad is laid out logically, enough so that I now believe Apple will manufacture one.

If Apple takes over the small tablet market as it has the full sized market, then Apple’s total share of the tablet market will exceed 90%.

Foxconn is going to be very busy with Apple products, but not necessarily any busier than they are now. Production time currently allocated to Dell, Samsung, HP et al, will be shifted to Apple. Then, in a couple of years Google will take a massive write down because the purchase of Motorola was ill-advised and over priced. Sad to see such old names (Kodak, HP, Motorola) get trashed.

By: Alcancun

Alcancun — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:34:53 +0000

Exactly why Apple WILL release one.