Credible Reports of a 7.85 Inch iPad Mini Emerge

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Network World: "For months now, rumors of an iPad with a 7.85-inch screen have been circulating through the blogosphere. And though Steve Jobs once said that 7-inch tablets are 'dead on arrival,' the relative success of the Amazon Kindle Fire and other smaller tablets suggests that consumers are more than willing to accept a smaller screen size in exchange for a cheaper buy-in point. Indeed, you might remember that Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said that Apple saw a tremendous uptick in overall iPad sales once it lowered the price of the iPad 2 down to $399. That said, a chorus of credible reports over the past few days have all claimed that Apple is currently working on a slimmed down iPad and that it may be set for release as early as this Fall."

Comments

I was way off!

[jdastrup]

And I always thought the rumor was for a 7.625-inch screen.

steve would know

[Anonymous Coward]

And though Steve Jobs once said that 7-inch tablets are 'dead on arrival,'

steve jobs knows all about 'dead on arrival', eh?

Re:steve would know

[Anonymous Coward]

That's cold. Kind of like Steve...

Naturally

[Applekid]

Well of course credible reports have emerged. The market needs some uncertainty injected into it since the Nexus 7 is soon to be released, and Apple certainly doesn't want anyone to buy that when they could have an iPad in a few short months.

Just a marketing ploy. It's a shame how complicit the media is when Apple wants to do it versus, well, any other technology company ever.