“Bigger is not always better, and this may be the case for the feverish speculation surrounding a smaller version of Apple’s iPad,” Cadie Thompson reports for CNBC.
“At least for right now, the rumored ‘iPad mini’ is just that — a rumor. Still, it would be highly profitable for Apple if it comes to market, and would likely outsell its full size predecessor two to one, Patrick Moorhead, of Moor Insights and Strategy, said,” Thompson reports. “That, however, depends on whether the price is right. ‘If they would price it at $299 they would kill most of the 7-inch competitors,’ Moorhead said. ‘Apple’s iPad would probably be about an 8-inch tablet, but it’s going to catch on very quickly if nothing else because it says Apple and it’s priced at $299.'”
Thompson reports, “While Apple has not yet confirmed it will even be producing a smaller iPad, nor set any dates for coming product announcements, reports claim Apple will launch the iPad Mini in October. “‘Apple wants to dominate all form factors for this kind of device. If you look at overall market share, they have 90 percent of tablet share today, but they don’t want to give an inch or even leave an opening for a competitor, not an OS or an ecosystem,’ Moorhead said… Brian White, an analyst with Topeka Capital Markets, who prices a smaller iPad in the $200 to $250 range, said he also thinks a smaller iPad would likely outsell the full size tablet in the long-term and would cannibalize 10 to 20 percent of the full size iPad sales.”
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MacDailyNews Take: For what it will do to the nascent non-iPad tablet market, Apple should name it “Little Boy.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
I’m sure the Japanese would love that
But the question is if on American market it will come with a file to file down those fat fingers?
What is interesting to see is what restrictions apple will put on the device.
I’ve heard the major restrictions will be the dimensions of the device.
That darned Apple not letting customers customize. I bet those dimensions are glued on.
iPad Nano
For what it will do to the nascent non-iPad tablet market, Apple should name it “Little Boy.”
Great line! That’ll surely get stolen and used elsewhere when and if Apple debuts “iPad mini.”
Don’t know if you understand what “little boy” is known for. Way before my time, but pretty tasteless “joke” and I’m so far from being politically correct it’s ridiculous.
Little Boy is the atomic bomb that was dropped over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. I don’t see anything offensive about that.
For those who are sensitive, may we use the conventional rather than the nuclear option and call it MOAB. On the other hand , since they are going thermo nuclear, maybe it should be ” Fat Man”. (My apologies to the weight challenged amongg the readers.)
Little Boy developed in Los Alamos led by Robert Oppenheimer was an atomic bomb using fissile material. Thermonuclear is a hydrogen bomb led by Edward Teller and Enrico Fermi that uses the principle of nuclear fusion. Fat Man is an atomic weapon. If you want to be absolutely correct you should call it bikini after the testing done in Bikini Atoll.
Well of course you wouldn’t because you’re knuckle dragging troglodyte, This is also one of the scummiest Mac sites of have ever been on. Not visiting here again.
Wow you are so much better than us!!!! Just kidding, I’m glad you’re leaving. Get out.
You mean its like showing up to school in JorDouche jeans?
or a Mumbas Only Jacket? Or worse a Zune anything.
There might be some of tht but kids are not fools. they know what works and they know what they want. its up to their parents to disappoint little Johnnie or Jennie. Here you go Happy birthday you special little child here is a knock off iPad mommy and daddy bought you so you can bring it to school and get ridiculed.
My advise it teach you children how to protect themselves with their plastic slab of crap. Perhaps a chest protector? Maybe provide then with some adhesive strips I hear these glossy slaps of plastic make great mirrors in the kids lockers.
In the end they will remember how much you cared to buy them what was cheap and easy instead of a device that could have made a difference in their education and provide entertainment.
Again I say go here. http://www.biglots.com/browse/electronics
get your Android junk here!!!
Hurry before the ads start to say please come take this shit away.
iPad nano may be ok…
But please kill the iPod classic and the shuffle…. keep the nano and the touch.
Kill the Mac Pro, iMac and the mini… keep the notebooks.
lol they’ll never kill the iMac
160gigs is still good storage. Untile the touches get to at least 128gig the classic still has a place. They’re handy if you just want to back up your music colliction and aren’t to fussed on wifi/internet stuff, or apps. They don’t have to kill it, people just don’t have to buy it.
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh. Like hot cakes, mama.
If they priced the iPad mini at $199, the whole fsckin internet would collapse onto itself when Apple opened up the pre-orders. It would not outsell the iPad “long term,” it would not merely cannibalize some of its sales, it would INSTANTLY outsell the iPad. They would never, ever be able to make enough of them. They’d sell 100 million before the end of the year.
The thought of Apple going for the jugular like that gives me chills, but I’m still expecting $299. And I can’t wait to place my order. Plus the internet can withstand that price, which is good cause I like the internet.
I’m 50/50 on whether it will be 299, or replace the iPad 2 at 399. I give it a 1% chance that it’s 249 or below. I do math good.
It’ll be $299 with 75% probability and $249 with 25% probability. The iPod touch will remain at $199. So there will be $100 increments between the iPod touch, iPad mini, iPad 2 and iPad 3.
“‘Apple wants to dominate all form factors for this kind of device.”
Bollocks! They want to make insanely great products. If they (Tim Cook) ever stoop to focussing on domination rather that innovation it will mark the beginning of the end of the company Steve Jobs created.
I can’t wait to get one!! And it’ll be called iBook.
For me the reason I think it will outsell the original, beaides price, is because the original as small as it is, you still do not want to carry it around with you.
I have had customers who own an iPhone, go to their car and being in a larger screen android device to show me pictures because we would all be squinting over an iPhone. Besides people look ridiculous at cafe’s or anywhere outdoor with a full size ipad. As mobile as it is, it’s still a stay at home or airport type product. I can’t picture full grown adults walking around outside with a full size ipad. But I can see the ipad mini everywhere. Businessmen, contractors, students, kids, housewives…
I predict it’s going to further define Apple.
‘MacDailyNews Take: For what it will do to the nascent non-iPad tablet market, Apple should name it “Little Boy.”
Apple should name it – ‘titch’. Look it up.
Definition of titch – noun
British informal – a small person.
So now analyst are speculating profitablity based on a rumored device. “it would be highly profitable”
Where do I get this kind of job?
Does everyone know Little Boy was one of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in ’45?
Yes – if they went to school before 1970.
You mean after 1970 we just taught War bad, America is an Island good?
Future product line may be:
10″ iPad
8″ iPad mini
6″ iPad nano (iPod XL?)
4″ iPod
2″ iPod nano
iPod shuffle
“Bollocks!” I was about to say that. If this were the case then Apple would produce several sizes and flavours of iPhone, there’d be 15 varieties of iPod, etc. etc. The smaller iPad will be just that: a lighter, cheaper 80%-scale alternative for running the same apps, etc. And I’m betting it’s really aimed at primary school kids (80%-scale people)
Apple’s ‘Mac Pro mini’ may sell like hotcakes compared to full-size Mac Pro
“Bigger is not always better, and this may be the case for the…fill in the blank”
People have wanted a smaller more affordable Mac tower for years. It doesn’t mean Apple is going to make one of these either.
And, of course, it will be ADULT ONLY – the keyboard stylus will have to be too sharp to be used by children
🙂
Fine – as long as the original size remains in production as well. For those of us who use our iPads a lot for drawing and painting, a smaller one won’t do. I need the screen real estate much more than the convenience of holding and carrying a smaller device. But obviously there is a market for this and yes, what a perfect birthday or Christmas present it would make… I would be tempted to buy one for my decidedly non-tech parents.
well, they did before. but the situation was changed since apple sued, declared a war. people slowly hate their action recently. if you know how healthy market should be kept, then you shouldn’t support apple anymore. this company will be died or back to 1997 again. finally, won’t even recover after all. I mean it.
Apple can kill Android on tablets in one strike: price the iPad Mini at $199!
Apple can afford it and it would strike a blow to the Android (and others) that they would not recover from in years and by then other battles are fought.
Come on Apple, hit Android where it hurts.
Johan
Apple can kill the profitability of the iPad market entirely in one strike: price the mythological iPad Mini at $199.
CLUE: Amazon LOST money on every sale of their LAME eReader Kindle Fire at $199.
And selling the brilliantly more capable iPad ‘Mini’ at that price benefits Apple HOW exactly?
Essentially you are saying:
‘Come on Apple! Hit YOURSELF where it hurts!’
That’s a very BAD idea. 😯
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Couldn’t resist it … Again.
maybe …
the rumored ‘iPad mini’
That says it all. Rumored.
Then add in the part where no company, so far, has made a profit in the mythological ~7″ WhateverPad market.
Then worry that Apple will gain NOTHING AT ALL by diving into that mythological market, except perhaps cannibalization of its record selling iPad 10″ models.
I continue to see nothing good here.
I continue to see your comments hating on the iPad mini. We heard you the first time…you don’t think it’s happening. Great. No need to tell us on every single iPad mini article. It’ll just make you look stupider and stupider because when it DOES come out (which it will) you’ll be remembered as the guy who never had faith in the mini (or whatever Apple will name it)
I continue to see your comments hating on the iPad mini.
It’s good to know you’re literate.
We heard you the first time
And yet the ridiculous rumors continue, and you believe them. I keep hoping you’ll actually pay attention and understand why, even if these aren’t mere rumors, that there is NO VIABLE MARKET for ~7″ WhateverPads evident. Show me something compelling! At least one person here described to me the usefulness of smaller iPads for kids in school. You offer… nothing. So you’re apparently just here to criticize. That’s a waste of everyone’s time. Try making actual logical sense, as I insistently do. That’s what I offer.
Oh and, as usual, how do you expect anyone to give a rat’s what you think about anything if you’re going to play the ANONYMOUS COWARD trick and hide from the light of day? 😛
The title seems to imply that the current iPad is not already selling like hotcakes or that it is not selling well.
I can’t believe Apple negativism in the media is still so omnipresent in the new post-pc era. Or perhaps these writers are still the old Wintel brainwashed haters trying on a new suit that doesn’t fit them well.