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How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini?
redletterdave writes "For about a year, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble were almost completely alone in the 7-inch tablet market. It was nice while it lasted. The past few months have seen Google and Microsoft unveil their 7-inch tablet offerings — the Nexus 7 and Microsoft Surface, respectively — and it looks like Apple is about ready to get into the mini tablet game, too. If Apple releases its first 'iPad Mini' next month, what can Amazon and Barnes & Noble do to keep the Cupertino colossus at bay, as well as the other new competitors in the 7-inch tablet game?"
They'll survive because nobody with two brain cells to rub together enjoys reading on a backlit and always-refreshing screen.
You are a Apple fanboy. You are completely out of touch with reality. I submit the fact that there are in existance of Android fanboys as proof there is a market for tablets outside of iPad, and that the release of a 7" iPad would not remove the market for 7" Android tablets.
So, based on you comments, you are now faced with deciding whether you are a slavishly deluded Apple fanboy, or that slavishly deluded Android fanboys don't exist, and every criticism of Apple has nothing to do with others being fanboys.
I would bet on the former.
Why is this modded up, really? The GP gives money to Slashdot and Slashdot lets him reply to stories before they're even shown to the rest of us (note the asterisk next to his name). It would be quite the accomplishment if someone managed to turn a 1000s uid poster and subscriber into an mere shillbot.
I think it's hilarious that Fanboys are still trotting out the lifespan argument for Apple devices now that we've had the big firestorm over the latest release of MacOS turning a lot of far less older machines into orphans.
Apple uses the same spare parts as everyone else.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.