“The original iPad mini has quietly disappeared from Apple’s web site, and is no longer available to purchase new from the Apple Store,” Jeremy Horwitz reports for 9to5Mac.
“Introduced in October 2012, the first iPad mini established the industrial design that was subsequently used in the iPad mini 2 and iPad mini 3, as well as the larger but otherwise nearly identical iPad Air and iPad Air 2,” Horwitz reports. “Apple notably continued to sell the 16GB iPad mini as an entry-level model alongside two of its sequels, dropping its price to $299 in October 2013, then $249 in October 2014.”
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MacDailyNews Take: R.I.P. original iPad mini!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]