If there ever IS any iPad ‘Mini’, it would not be junk sold at a loss. It would not be comparable to the Google and Amazon crapware OtherPads. It will be an Apple iPad.

There would be no: challenge for Apple . . . to price the smaller tablet attractively in order for it to succeed. I

nstead, there would be the challenge for Google and Amazon to actually COMPETE with Apple by creating comparable quality OtherPads. And they won’t.

Blatant DUH Factor. Wake up WSJ.

I will get one the first day. I work in a school system where my job entails moving from classroom to classroom during the day observing and entering data. I have other things to carry, and the 10 inch iPad is larger and heavier than I wish.

Compared to carrying binders with paper in them, yes, I would use one, but the Mini comes along at just the right time. To the point where it is worth the price, and yes, I do pay for it myself. It makes my day that much easier, worth the cost.

The iPad mini serves a market segment that is distinct from the iPad, being targeted at in car navigation and entertainment systems (all the better to view the new iOS maps), and medical field where its pocketable size will serve housemen, doctors, nurses and medical emergency staff well. It has uses in the light aircraft industry which can serve as a navigation aid on board space limited smaller propellor engine aircraft.

And lastly but not least the education market will welcome the iPad mini with open arms as its lightness makes it ideal to tote around classes.

You just have no idea what you’re talking about because your mind is completely closed to the infinite possibilities and uses that the iPad mini can be put to.

Apple managed its way to the top by maintaining a very limited amount of models for each device line that they offer and I am not sure that the 7.85 form factor will not simply end up eroding iPad sales. The proverbial well will run dry for Apple as it did and does for every company on the Globe since the beginning of time and this offering along with what we think might be a rushed 4.5″ iPhone 5s could be problematic in terms of product sitting on shelves for extended periods of time.

Is it that commentators tend to think the iPm will have to be similarly priced or cheaper, when in fact it could be twice as expensive and still kill the competition?

Or is it that the iPm could be even cheaper than anyone realizes — far cheaper than the comparables?

It’s nonsense when people talk about the lack of variation within a product category as being a positive, much less opening up another product category.

The iPad mini cements Apple’s position as the purveyor of cars whereas the other competitors are still trying to move tractors, trucks and in some cases rickety rickshaws (Samsung Galaxy, I’m looking at you).

A spread of products priced sensibly never hurt the bottom line and in fact serves as a springboard to Apple nirvana.

Prepare to eat crow.

no iPad mini for us.

The crow cake is sitting cooling in the pantry ready to be brought out and served to Derek Currie and a whole host of naysayers on here!