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7-Inch iPad Rumored
Stoobalou writes "Rumours of a cut-down Apple iPad are ramping up as Taiwanese news outlet Economic Daily News names names. The often-reliable Chinese language newspaper — which correctly predicted the first coming of the iPad when everyone else on the planet was carping on about a sub-$500 netbook from the Cupertino company — has been digging about in the skips behind a number of Chinese factories and reckons it knows who will be making which bit of the much-predicted iPad 2."
I think it's great. I will have my iPhone as a mobile device, the normal big and classy iPad for coffee shops and to impress girls, and the medium size iPhone/iPad variant for things while iPhone isn't enough, but when iPad is too big. I can already think hundreds of different situations where it will fit perfectly.
I can already see how some apple-haters will come here and say "what is the purpose of this medium-sized iPhone?", but if you don't see it you're just not thinking different enough. Just continue to follow the sheep and install your Windows. At least when I see an Apple user I know he is different, intellectual person I can have a good conversation with. He is not just there to talk with me because he has malware on his computer. I am studying art currently and having the iPad makes a complete difference on how other students and professors look at me. They know I'm an artist and an intellectual person.
I can't wait to get this device on my hands.
This is truly news for female nerds. 8 inches is too big and that old 5.5 inch average just isn't satisfying. I will of course be gifting one to the next geeky girl I date, so she will be thoroughly satisfied by seven inches of perfection.
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In other news, I just pre-ordered my iPad Nano.
Oh please. This is the same "often-reliable" newspaper that predicted that Apple was going to release an iPhone nano earlier this year.
Also, the idea that anybody expected Apple to release a "sub-$500 netboook" is sheer lunacy. Nobody seriously expected that-- the iPad was widely anticipated by just about everyone for months before it was released.
The common hamster [wikipedia.org] can grow to a size of fourteen inches in length, three inches across, and can weigh up to a pound.
So THAT's why my wife calls "it" my big hamsta.
Obvious jokes aside, I think I'd trade in my 9.7" for the 7" if it became an option. The higher density of the screen with the same specs and a smaller footprint just sounds like win to me. Seeing as I mainly use the iPad for reading, it looks like this could be the perfect size for an e-reader.
It really all depends on how much they want to drop the price, if at all. I certainly wouldn't pay the same amount all over again when I've got a perfectly acceptable, not quite as small device already.
I know the iPad is nice and shiny and oh so good looking, but honestly, a Kindle causes less strain on the eyes and much easier to hold and is now, much cheaper. Perhaps this 7" will remove the arm-strain issues, while still delivering good battery life and sweet color screen that's not so small as to cause eye strain (reading the iPod touch in bed is not conducive to sleep, whereas I have no problems with the iPad).
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Apple users will pay for anything, so long as they can get another little white Apple sticker.
My then-fiance now-wife bought an Apple sticker about a year ago and put it on her Thinkpad.
Me: "Why did you do that?" ::facepalm::
Brittnie: "Because now I get all the pretentiousness without being a broke asshole."
Me:
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My girlfriend has an iPad. She uses it as a network appliance to check email and websites when we're in restaurants with WiFi. She uses it to entertain her children with games. They all use it to watch movies purchased with iTunes while on airplanes or car rides. And yes, she reads books on it.
I'm with you, I don't see it as useful for any dedicated purpose. But I think that's the key -- it's not dedicated to anything. It's a general purpose machine, and easy enough to use that the masses will be able to find something they like to do with it.
Give me a similar machine that runs on Linux and I'd purchase it tomorrow. I don't know what I'd do with it, but I know that I'll find something.
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Seems like we're at:
"An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy"
http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/