Apple isn’t ‘developing’ a 7-inch iPad, they already have a 7-inch iPad ready to go

“Analysts are predicting that Apple will begin work on its 7-inch iPad very soon,” Jim Dalrymple reports for The Loop. “They are wrong.”

“The fact is, Apple already has a 7-inch iPad. They have had one of the smaller devices since they started making the 9.7-inch iPad that we have now,” Dalrymple reports. “To be clearer, the two devices were developed at the same time.”

Dalrymple reports, “When Apple decides it is going to release a 7-inch iPad, rest assured it has been in the works for a long time.”

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  1. Apple has a 27″ horizontal iPad with a virtual keyboard and a multi-touch screen ready to go as well.

    There is a spring loaded stand that pops it up to the vertical for viewing movies, a 2 TB HD, i5 and i7 multi-core Intel CPUs, the usual import/export interfaces down one side and the standard CD/DVD/Blu-ray Combo play/burn optical drive on the other side.

    Snow Leopard Touch is ready to go as well.

    All Apple has to do is pull the trigger.

    See, anybody can blog bullshit.

  2. Apple has a 27″ horizontal iPad with a virtual keyboard and a multi-touch screen ready to go as well.

    There is a spring loaded stand that pops it up to the vertical for viewing movies, a 2 TB HD, i5 and i7 multi-core Intel CPUs, the usual import/export interfaces down one side and the standard CD/DVD/Blu-ray Combo play/burn optical drive on the other side.

    Snow Leopard Touch is ready to go as well.

    All Apple has to do is pull the trigger.

    See, anybody can blog bullshit.

  3. @ HMCIV

    I have wondered the same exact thing. After using the iPad for the past 6 months I couldn’t imagine it being as useful or entertaining if it were 2 inches smaller. It wouldn’t be big enough to easily view most webpages without a lot of horizontal scrolling and it wouldn’t be small enough to fit comfortably in your pocket. The only benefit I see is less power consumption, but the current iPad already gets 10-12 hours of battery life per charge.

    Could anybody who actually wants a 7″ iPad explain your reasoning?

  4. @ HMCIV

    I have wondered the same exact thing. After using the iPad for the past 6 months I couldn’t imagine it being as useful or entertaining if it were 2 inches smaller. It wouldn’t be big enough to easily view most webpages without a lot of horizontal scrolling and it wouldn’t be small enough to fit comfortably in your pocket. The only benefit I see is less power consumption, but the current iPad already gets 10-12 hours of battery life per charge.

    Could anybody who actually wants a 7″ iPad explain your reasoning?

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