Comments on: Confession of a Google Nexus 7 owner: Apple’s ‘iPad mini’ will blow it away

By: Altos

Altos — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:31:35 +0000

A device between an iPad and an iPod could be called:

An iPoad, which would combine the best of both

or an iPed or iPid, with use a vowel in between a and o.

Then again, probably not. Lets leave the naming to Apple if they come up with such a device.

By: Altos

Altos — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:25:58 +0000

Actually b9bot, depending on the technique used, it wouldn’t harm much you to hold his breath. So why wouldn’t you.

By: Same

Same — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:16:13 +0000

It was so you cold name an app “iBooks.”

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:02:59 +0000

iPod Touch!

I expect you are quite correct. But I still don’t see a viable market waiting for a solution. We will of course see. I may well be digesting hat in the near future. That would be great, if the market is real and Apple can profit from it. Meanwhile…

By: twimoon1

twimoon1 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:54:27 +0000

The iPad mini might be slightly larger screen than the 7″ Nexus and that difference might make a very big difference in usability.

Regardless, the 7″ tablet form factor is superior to 10″ for a few use cases. One handed use especially, and slightly more portable which matters in some situations.

By: twimoon1

twimoon1 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:47:35 +0000

There were high level “leaks” right after Google announced the Nexus 7. Those were almost certainly strategically planned leaks to put ice on the Nexus 7 sales.

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:48:14 +0000

every time I pick the iPad up I am struck by how much better the user experience is compared to that of the Nexus 7.

Maybe the SIZE of the iPad, compared to a ~7″, has something to do with that?

~7″ WhateverPad: The mythical market.

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:04:03 +0000

At least I learned a new word today. I’d never heard of the term “git” before. There’s quite a few nasty definitions for this three-letter word. I’m not British, so I guess that’s why I’ve never come across it before.

By: mossman

mossman — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:48:40 +0000

If it is called iBook, this could handily side-step the issue of multiple screen sizes/resolutions for iPhone and iPad. As a completely “new” product, it could have its own screen res separate from its smaller and larger cousins.

By: fartheadmacoy

fartheadmacoy — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:56:48 +0000

James Kendrick should replace John Browett.
Are you listening Tim Cook?

By: Dr. Pill

Dr. Pill — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:54:22 +0000

i must say, +100 for what you stand for BLN.
Cheerio, Ol’chap. Well handled and always consistent.
All forums need openness and opposing opinions;
and that is typically what you offer. Flavour.

@Rorschach… funny as usual. Don’t be offended and quoting another I know you can be more creative.

@Tim Bamford… one believes BLN was referring to John Browett and rightfully so.

By: eldernorm

eldernorm — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:47:25 +0000

OMG just read David Pogues article vs this machine… so funny.

“Moreover, Samsung’s software designers must be former Hollywood art directors who fabricated alien spacecraft; Samsung’s apps are festooned with bizarre icons. None of them have identifying text labels, and their logos are frequently so unhelpful they may as well be random Cyrillic letters. Would you guess, for example, that to turn on handwriting recognition, you tap an icon that shows a circle in front of a mountain?

Some of the icons in S Note actually display a different menu every other time you tap them. I’m not making this up.”

parts are so funny.
“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/technology/personaltech/samsungs-rival-for-the-ipad-loads-on-the-features.html”

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:03:53 +0000

Because only you & him have that special autistic ability of Limeys to whine like old women.

By: Lordthree

Lordthree — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:54:52 +0000

woa that’s a strange auto correct….

By: Lordthree

Lordthree — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:54:15 +0000

noCommentsnokia announcements… Just part leaks… Internal memos and emails…

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:54:04 +0000

So how, exactly, do you know Tim is another ‘whining Limey’? There are more than enough whiners on here that one assumes are Americans, snivelling about something or other seems to be just as much an American trait, especially when there is some political slant.
You have just shown yourself to be the, and I quote, ‘ rude, obnoxious, xenophobic little shit’ that you always are.
About the only thing you contribute is an irritation along the lines of a dose of poison Oak.

By: b9bot

b9bot — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:22:43 +0000

That’s if there really is an iPad Mini. No announcements of any such product yet, so I wouldn’t hold your breath. It would be nice though. Maybe even I could afford to get one.

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:17:25 +0000

Geez, another whining Limey. Who would have thought.

By: Tim Bamford

Tim Bamford — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:59:35 +0000

So you’re still being the rude, obnoxious, xenophobic little shit that we expect from you (not withstanding your homophobic, misogynistic and on-line porn tendencies). Please go away and pollute some other forum

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:55:47 +0000

It does nor surprise, we had a ‘not Apple’ tablet after a few weeks it was already replaced by an iPad.

By: hannahjs

hannahjs — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:50:48 +0000

A regular Benedict Arnold, he is.

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:44:26 +0000

I hope that British git isn’t handling the launch of the iPad mini.

By: Ghost of Steve

Ghost of Steve — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:40:40 +0000

Darn. I was hoping that we could have kept that name quiet. Now everyone will realize why we pulled it from the low-end laptops.