“Leaked reports suggest that the iPad Mini will have a 7.85-inch screen,” LeClaire reports. “That’s about 2 inches smaller than the original iPad and almost an inch bigger than the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7.”
LeClaire reports, “We turned to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, to get his take on the rumored iPad Mini.”
MacDailyNews Take: That’s like turning to Lindsay Lohan to calculate Mars rover landing coordinates.
LeClaire continues, “‘The Kindle Fire was the tablet that really got people looking at the sevens to begin with, followed by the Nexus 7,’ Enderle said. ‘Any way you look at it, Apple is either months or almost a year late to the market with this… The 7-inch tablets are all about content — books and movies. Unlike the 10-inch class of tablets, where people expect to do productivity tasks on the device, the 7-inch is just for consumption. The killer apps are pretty much already on the Kindle and the Nexus 7, which is going to make it much tougher for Apple to break in. I don’t see Apple’s angle here, which I think is a problem… Apple could cannibalize its larger iPad sales with what is a smaller revenue product and that doesn’t work out for them, either. There are a lot of ways this could go wrong.’”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Brawndo Drinker" and "silverhawk1" for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Enderle doesn’t see Apple’s angle. Shocking.
Perhaps he should’ve asked the Enderle “Group’s” other two members: his wife and his dog.
iCal’ed for future use.
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