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Thoughts On the iPad Mini
John Gruber at Daring Fireball has a thoughtful piece about the design of Apple's smaller iPad, which the company is expected to announce on September 12. Simply shrinking the current iPad's dimensions to a new form factor is unlikely, he says, and the bezel surrounding the display is more likely to be a cross between an iPad and an iPhone. He also discusses evidence of Apple's PR team getting the rumor mill going immediately after the announcement of Google's Nexus 7, and how Apple has probably bet on having a thinner and lighter tablet than Google, rather than worrying about a better display. Quoting:
"Apple product designs are true to themselves. Each thing has proportions suited to its own nature. Consider how the iPad doesn’t look like a blown up iPhone. They share a few similar design elements — a family resemblance, if you will — but the proportions are different. The iPad has a thick bezel surrounding all four sides of the display; the iPhone does not. Why? Because you need a place to rest your thumbs while holding an iPad. ... Should not the iPad Mini fall somewhere in between? Not as close to the aspect ratio of its display as the iPad-as-we-know-it, but also not as far away from its display aspect ratio as the iPhone. You might need more thumb-rest room on the sides than you do on the iPhone, but not nearly as much as you do on the full-size iPad. If that assumption is right, the proportions of a 7.85-inch 4:3-aspect-ratio display iPad Mini are likely not the same as the proportions of the 9.7-inch 4:3-aspect-ratio display iPad."
Hmmmmm. It's true -- some people do prefer 7" over 9".
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I always thought the iPad always did just look like an overblown iPhone. Regardless of what the article states about a place to rest your thumbs. Its perception that matters and public opinion. I have used Android and Apple devices (can't bring myself to call them ios because for me ios will always be Cisco). and the only advantage Apple has is the integration and the iTunes store.
It's a smaller iPad. Tiny differences about bezels don't matter, we all know what to expect here. The only question is the price - how much of a premium is this going to be over a Nexus 7?
I think it is fair to say we don't know anything. Gruber along with everyone else is just guessing. His point about this not shipping in September but being announced in September is a good one, we don't know enough so this isn't a few weeks from going on sale. October/November sale date seems more likely.
Here are the resolutions:
iPad 1/2: 1024 x 768
iPad 3: 2048 x 1536 (doubled)
iPhone 4S: 640 x 960
iPhone 5 (rumor): 640 x 1136
earlier iPhone: 320 x 480
I'm going with a bigger version of the iPhone 5 resolution. 1136x640 is close to what the original iPad had, allows for a cheap screen, doesn't require developers to support yet another resolution... But no one really knows.
The other big question for September is whether there will be a 13" inch retina macbook pro.
This, by far, is the most uninteresting article I've read in ages. Seriously, how much more non-newsworthy can it get? It ranks somewhere between soap-gossip and determining the mathematical function that most closely approximates the shape of my toe nails.
Here's a thought. How about just waiting until September 12th to see what they actually release? Maybe take the extra time you'd be wasting on speculation to get some actual work done.
If everyone took all the time they waste on speculating on future Apple products and the 2012 U.S. Election and actually did some useful work, the economy would recover in a week.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
(Posting AC because I'm at work and I don't log in from work...)
I think the decision to go with the iPad Mini came about as Jobs' eureka moment when he figured out how to make controlling the Apple TV easy - make the remote an iPad Mini. I predict that every Apple TV (when it's finally announced) will ship with an iPad Mini. And, if they're going to make them as remotes for the TV, why not also sell them to the market-at-large?
Will it be a hit? Probably. Will it be superior to a regular iPad? Depends on what the person's wants and needs are. If you want a big screen, then no. If you want ultra-portability (i.e.: able to put it in a large pocket), then yes.
Regardless, my prediction is it will be tightly tied to the Apple TV.
It's not a slashvertisement. It's an opinion piece about a rumoured product. TFA is a well written opinion piece, but that's all it is, you should read it. Your post on the other hand is whining in tone. If googles products are good enough, they won't have the slightest thing to worry about.
Perhaps you could write something interesting on the subject, instead of whining. Perhaps that's too difficult for you.
Just like anything about Apple, people make up rumor based on what the rest of the market is doing or past behavior. Every year there have been rumor of an iPad mini and before phone with XL screen like the Galaxy were successful there were rumor of iPhone nano.
Sure I like a good piece of tech gossip, but analysis based on opinions about rumors that will inevitably end up in ePenis fight between Android and Apple fanboys are getting tiring.
Some people are even actively mocking that state of affair: http://day4.se/how-we-screwed-almost-the-whole-apple-community/
As many as there are necessary to make us forget the long soliloquies I had to listen to each time I mentioned that the large screen and weight of the iPad make it rather poor choice for proper mobile use, and basically useless at home where you have a notebook anyway.
I'm used to 7-7.5 inches and under 300 grams of weight from the ebooks I've been using for about a decade now, so it was good to see Android-based tablets in a similar form factor. I have just upgraded an ageing galaxy tab to a Google Nexus 7 and I am glad to see that Apple is joining the crowd.
In fact, I was wondering - how different will it be from an iPod Touch? I'd say they already have an iPad Mini - albeit w/ some artificial subset of apps being allowed to run on it.
What is with carrying stuff in your pockets? Do you really carry your smart phone in your pocket?
Yes, and it has an extended battery too. Doesn't matter what kind of pants I'm wearing.
Pockets are nice because they are accessible, can't be accidentally set down or lost, are harder to steal from, and don't scream "look, I have expensive items!". I carry everything in my pockets.
The meek may inherit the earth, but the strong shall take the stars.
Here are a few reasons: Mobile connectivity, super high resolution, bigger screen size, large apps ecosystem, compatibility with other devices already owned.
...for when you need the portability of an iPad with the screen size and ergonomics of an iPod. I've seen very little from the tablet market that isn't a race towards a browsing-and-not-much-else device. I'd be more impressed with multitasking, but I suspect I'm not their target market.
Please consider this account deleted, I just can't be bothered with the spam anymore.
Umm, yes, yes I do. Actually, my 4.3" smartphone with hard case actually even fits into one of the lower pockets of some of the carpenter pants I own. I generally keep my wallet and keys in my left pocket (once I traveled internationally, I never saw a reason to keep the wallet in the back pocket, its bad for your back anyway). The right pocket has my smartphone and possibly a small usb drive. So, yeah, see no issue with carrying my smartphone around in my pocket. Since I used to work at heights frequently, I never trusted belt cases, plus they are generally regarded as tacky. How tight are your pants that you can't fit a smartphone in them?
How long before Apple start making trousers with pockets just the right size to hold an iDevice? iPants anyone?
Yeah, you keep drinking the kool aid, dude.
Besides the different chassis and the lack of voice communicationon, the iPad is a super-sized iPhone.
Skinny jeans might be all the rage among hipsters these days but us normal people can easily fit a cellphone in a pants pocket. Where the hell are you carrying yours? In your "it's not a purse, it's European!"?
This whole thing reminds me of the Hindi Ambassador. Basically it was an obsolete car design bought from the UK that had very few real improvements in its long life. Every year all Indian motoring journalists had to write about was minute changes to the tail light shape or the door handles.
Journalists should stop writing off RIM. Both Apple and Android products are getting so mature that, if RIM doesn't release BB 10 phones next year, there is going to be significant unemployment in the obsessing-over-gadgets industry.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
I would have figured at least 1/3 of the crowd here would be sporting a utility kilt. You can carry a netbook in those.
> With the Nexus 7 you can download Torrent clients
more evidence of google building a business empire on facilitating piracy of creative works.
face it, the only advantage of android is that it makes it easier to be a pirate. I mean isn't that the main selling point? "It let's you install pirated apps on it!"
now as a developer why would I want to support that?
Less thumb space? You either need your thumb on the front of it to hold it in one hand, or you need it on the side. It's not like you can use a smaller thumb if the device is smaller... Phones are typically held with the thumb and fingers opposing each other on the sides of the device, whereas the larger pad devices are held with the thumb and fingers opposing each other on the front and back of the device.
This just sounds like an invitation for complaints and more "You're holding it wrong" responses.
I have a hard time buying your argument, please provide more details, to be more precise:
Define invent. Then prove that Apple did that (linking to a credible source is of course enough)
Define Personal Computer. Then prove that Apple created it (linking to a credible source here too is of course enough)
Define what a smartphone is. Then prove that Apple created it initially (linking to a credible source would also be acceptable here too).
Define what a tablet is. Then prove that Apple created it initially (linking to a credible source yet again would be acceptable).
Then explain why this should mean Apple should be the only company to ever produce such products.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Compatability with other devices already owned is only a plus if you only have Apple devices, otherwise it's a disadvantage with the iPad.
Who cares how well written it is, it is still content free. Nobody has leaked images yet so this guy's idle speculation isn't any better than some random /. user. But we have to have at least one Apple story per day it appears so this is it. Bah.
Oh well, won't last much longer. The iPod is almost a memory, the iPhone is fast retreating to the traditional 10% of the market where overpriced luxury goods normally dwell and with a little luck the iPad will also become something the 'rest of us' can safely quit worrrying about.
Democrat delenda est
Assuming all these rumours turn out to be true..
If Apple finally kill off the iPhone 3GS, it leaves us with three models the iPhone 5, 4S, and 4. For people with loads of cash of course (and people in the US stuck on the absurd $0/$99/$199+$2400 over two years pricing) you just get the latest one. For the rest, have fun making sense of it. The iPhone 5 has a bigger screen. How much does it matter? Will people build their apps targeting the larger screen? Probably not to begin with. So do you lose out by getting an iPhone 4S? Then why not get the iPhone 4? Oh wait, no Siri or new Maps or new iPhoto. So the 4S has those? Yes. But so does the 5? Yup. So will the 4S not get the next cool thing Apple introduce? Maybe. Will they work better on the bigger screen? Don't know. Won't it be better to just get the smaller screen until developers actually get around to building apps for the larger screen?
It gets even more fun with the iPads. Do you buy an iPad 2 or an iPad mini? The former isn't getting the new maps or Siri, while the latter probably will. But the iPad 2 has a bigger screen. But the Mini screen will look better even at the same resolution as the iPad 2. So wait, doesn't that mean everything - the buttons controls etc carefully designed on apps for the big iPad will be shrunk on the Mini, making it much less convenient to use? Will the Mini get Siri? Yes - perfect, why spend loads more on a bigger less portable iPad or a far more expensive iPhone to get Siri. No - doesn't make logical sense, a new product that's already crippled.
Then we have the iPod touch, which is supposed to get an update. It should remain at $199 or so. Will it get Siri? Probably not, it's too cheap. So what exactly is the point of it?
I am not saying Apple can't find their way around it. But if they've given into giving their customers choice instead of saying that their devices are the perfect size, it's going to bring inevitable issues. Just like the profit focused planned obsolescence approach which artificially limits features like Siri and iOS Maps. There will have to be some degree of compromise on the core Apple values of apps just working and looking the same on every Apple device. We would already be looking at 4-5 different screen sizes and resolutions that developers will have to think about.
From TFA: "7.85 inches diagonally, 1024×768 pixels at 163 PPI — the same pixels-per-inch density as the pre-retina iPhones and iPod Touch."
IE next year's model will have a better display. Wait and buy then if this is a product that interests you.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
I think Apple would be happy with 10% unit share and 75% profit share in the mobile market, not that unit share matters a bit to Apple if history is any guide. They are always focused on the profit. Always.
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
...which shows that you aren't very thoughtful, dismissing an article out of hand. Irony much?
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Are there not Phandroid cultists too?
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Invent, create, or initially create? Be consistent.
I sampled, but didn't purchase, a Samsung Galaxy Note. Possibly the largest mobile phone on the planet with a 5.3" screen.
It fitted fine in a standard pair of Levi's. Even with keys and a hanky - it's slimmer than my existing phone.
I sure hope there's a Lisa emulator on the iPod XL.
Apple should market a new fashion line for carrying this new 7" tablet. 'mini skirt' has a certain ring to it.
the iPhone is fast retreating to the traditional 10% of the market where overpriced luxury goods normally dwell
this is exquisite bs. a new iphone costs $200 with contract, the same as (or less than) new premium android phones like the Galaxy. There are also models at the $100 price point and free with contract. How can you call it an overpriced luxury good? This is a tired meme that used to be true 5 years ago. Also, sorry, iPad is 90% of the market with no challengers on the horizon, and ipad mini will eat nex7's lunch.
Without a doubt. But I think the added cult of personality around Steve Jobs makes the apple fans more devoted.
Yup. Had the Nexus 7 in my left pocket this morning, but was asking myself on the bike ride to the train station (I ride a tikit -- the crossbar is low enough to not conflict with the kilt) if it was there at all.
The only real down side to the huge pockets is how they sit to the front. It's a benefit to cycling -- have heavy enough pocket contents and the pockets prevent wind gusts from compromising modesty -- but a disappointment to the womenfolk (hard to cop a feel through a smartphone, a wallet, and a 7" tablet).
99 bucks a year for the privilege of installing your own programs on the device.
woosh!
I don't get the third paragraph. Ever since iOS finally cut the docking cable you don't need a PC to get going, just iCloud credentials and a network connection. It's cool that you can download BitTorrent clients but neither platform has enough storage to go nuts with BT, especially the tiny storage options on N7.
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It's a screen and a motherboard encased in plastic and metal. Design hipsters fap about these things, apparently.
basically useless at home where you have a notebook anyway
We each have a laptop, but the iPad (would guess it's the same with all full-size tablets) is great to grab with you when you pop outside for a smoke. Yes, I'm guilty of playing games or reading news while sitting outside in a semi-comfy chair. It's also great to have at arm's length while playing Wii (for looking up info or using as a "real" TV guide, for playing a game during a commercial or adding items to my Netflix queue while sort-of watching something else). Or propped up in bed reading an electronic book or Netflix or game or whatever. It's an ideal device to keep nearby so you can just quickly pick it up and do something without delay or the frustration of the laptop form factor.
Weight? Holding a tablet has never been a big deal. You can always switch arms if it's giving you a cramp. I guess I don't see you whipping out your iPad in the middle of the grocery store, but on a train or plane? Sure. Basically anywhere you sit down it makes sense... but that's not a weight thing. It's because you're concentrating on the device and it could be dangerous to have this big screen you're staring at, unaware of your surroundings.
Shill harder, Macbot.
Amusing, given the post he replied to, especially since it is an actual on-topic and accurate response to a question posed by the original (apparently non-shilling-for-google) post.
My iPhone interfaces with a few other devices. None of them, except the iMac, are made by Apple, or do you mean that if you go with an iOS device you are going to end up with third party devices that all have the 30 pin dock connector? That is a valid complaint, especially with the suggestion that Apple is dropping that connector with the new generation (albeit with an adapter available, but that won't work with all devices).
The kilt itself doesn't have pockets, it's the "Sporran" (Scottish Gaelic for "purse", it is the progenitor of the "murse," the jockstrap cup and the pocket protector) that is worn in front of the kilt that serves as the pocket. I expect it's only a matter of time before Belkin and Griffin make a $50 piece of plastic you can snap your iPad into to hang in front of your crotch from a cord, making it conveniently placed when sitting down or quickly accessible by simply flipping up when standing... also useful as an electronic billboard in public spaces for featuring paid advertisements or dubious national pride statements, such as: "A true Scotsman wears nothing beneath his kilt."
I find my iPad perfectly suitable for mobile use--that is, I can put it in my satchel and use it at the cafe--and it's even better for home use, where it would be ridiculous for me to have a notebook when I have a perfectly good desktop machine. Except I can't sit in the armchair with my desktop machine.
It seems to me that tens of millions of people have found perfectly valid use cases for the iPad. Just because you can't find one doesn't mean it isn't there. I personally didn't have a good use case for it until a few months ago, when we decided to stop having two desktop machines and just switch to one desktop machine and a couple iPads. It works way better than the previous setup, AND we ended up with portable machines in the process.
If Apple is pulling a 7.85" screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio, it's going to be significantly wider. If it doesn't fit in a damn pocket, there's really no point in getting one over a full-size iPad.
That is why I am expecting a 7.0" screen. The folks expecting 7.85" are assuming a screen with the same pixels per inch (PPI) as the original iPhone, 163 PPI. Given that the retina display tech/process lets them get to 326 on the iPhone and 264 on the iPad I expect that an iPad "mini" would use 183 PPI to get to a 7.0" 1024x768 screen. 1024x768 being key for compatibility.
To be honest, the Nexus 7 blows the iPad out of the water. The Nexus 7 is the best tablet device I've ever gotten my hands on, for less than half the price of an iPad.
It also has a lower resolution, less storage, a smaller battery and less app for it.
It's more customizable, easier to get content, and with the soft back - easier to hold.
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Google-Nexus-7,Apple-iPad-3/phones/7143,5715
More customizable? I guess you need to fiddle with it because it comes setup so poorly and you have to do something out of boredom whereas iPad users "use" their devices. I can customize the lockscreen background, wallpaper, notifications and alert sounds. What more do I need? I could also jailbreak it if I really wanted to do more tweaking but I prefer stability and security over futzing around. Content? Yeah, as long and the music is in MP3 format whereas the iPad supports MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless). For video, the iPad also supports more formats and third party apps easily support additional formats. Games and apps are more plentiful on the IPad as well.
Services are more integrated than the iPad, IMHO, you could get by fine without having a computer to sync up with the Nexus 7.
What services? Google services? What if I don't want to use Google+? You can get by without syncing to a computer on an iPad since the release of iOS 5.0.
With the Nexus 7 you can download Torrent clients and apps such as Music Paradise to get all of your content, while there really isn't any alternative to the iTunes store with the iPad unless you root it.
Oh, I get it, you mean pirated shit. I thought you meant quality content.
Google Now works very well, I rarely type things in because the voice recognition is so accurate.
The Nexus 7 is a very nice device. I don't see why anyone would choose an iPad over the Nexus 7 right now.
How much did you get paid for that post Mr. Google shill? Yeah, why would anyone choose an iPad with its higher resolution and more apps and commercial games when you can get a device with less apps and less storage.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Actually, that particular guys idle speculation is a LOT better than some random /. user.
You worry about iPads?
Apple will never say the bezel design is to make the iPad easier to hold, because this would be a functional reason for its current construction. That would prevent them from using their *design patent* argument against Samsung regarding the bezel. They simply say it was an aesthetic decision :P
I can see where there are probably not an insignificant number of people who might want to use one as a phone.
Couldn't agree more. Wonder when Apple will launch a /. competitor.
If the Slashdot buisness had any buisness future, Taco would not have cashed out and jumped ship.
After all where is it going to fit price wise? It can't be less than an Ipod Touch, and it certainly can't be more than the Ipad 2, w hich has the advantage of a better screen size. If I was going to buy a 7 inch tablet, why not a 9 for the same price or cheaper? And given that the Android tablet makers are set to savage each other down pricewise, I can't see where Apple would make a profit in this market.
LOL, suddenly, am I imagining Mae West saying "Is that a tablet in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
the fact that Apple is releasing a "me too" smaller tablet
So, your theory is that Apple saw the Nexus 7, and told their engineering team to start working on a "smaller tablet" to go out the door in 3 months?
Yeah, that makes sense.
Assuming the DF is correct in its release-time guesses, it's (barely) possible that Apple has had a mini-iPad in the works for a year or two, but is pushing it out earlier than planned, or even that the good reception for the the Nexus 7 made Apple give the project the "go" for commercial sale, but I'm pretty sure that you can't ship any size tablet without a significant run-up in production across many parts providers, not to mention the R&D that is required before that.
Nicely done. The corresponding utility patent would be not be granted on grounds of obviousness.
Like these?
Nexus 7 is 1280x800
With that in mind, I doubt that Apple would go for a lower resolution.
How much are your corporate puppet-masters paying you to shill for them?
I have corporate puppet masters?
Where are they, and is the buffet free?
My local iPad fan is dumping her iPad for a 7 inch Android tablet. It turns out there was some logic behind all of those book reader devices that decided on the 7 inch size.
The iPad had the appearance of being first to market and had a lot of mindless marketing buzz behind it. A lot of that was marketing posing as journalism. The original article here is just more of the same.
Smaller tablets have continued to thrive or even gain traction against Apple on it's own turf and now it's time to turn the battleship as it were and begin the propaganda deluge for Apple's "me too" product.
Apple doesn't seem quite so inevitable any more.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Quite probably, and those people are also religious idiots.
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
There have been rumors about the iPad mini for most of a year. And it was always assumed that it would be introduced in the fall for Christmas sales.
The rush has been for everyone else to get their stuff out first so that they would get some toe hold in the market niches before Apple released the iPad mini.
Just because you can't find one doesn't mean it isn't there
Since we're discussing Apple following the competition with a smaller tablets, it is obvious it isn't "just me".
Weight? Holding a tablet has never been a big deal
Sure. Using it, on the other hand, requires some getting used to it. A lot less when the tablet is lighter. Which is why Apple is now following the competition with a smaller option.
Sorry, but nope; the aspect ratio won't change, even if the resolution does.
The new iPhone and iPad resolutions were chosen to make old software scale up and new software scale down without leaving ugly black bands down the edges. In addition, all the content in the iTunes store is scaled to fit without leaving your movies with the same aspect ratio as they were intended to be shown.
The big screw up Android has made, and continues to make, is that there is no uniform resolution and scaling to make content portable between devices; this include applications, as well as video and other media. There's no incentive to compete for the same parts with everyone else making an Android device by picking a specific ratio/ratio+integer resolution multiplier: the vendors want product differentiation and vendor lock-in, whereas for the iDevices, there's an intent to create an ecosystem.
Consider that there's no reason to have vendor loyalty to a particular device vendor when all your content purchased from the last device you bought from them looks like crap on the new device. Apple, on the other hand, is all about the ecosystem: they could care less if your content was portable, as long as you are viewing it on a device you bought from Apple, and hey, having multiple devices from Apple means you have more reason to spend money in the iTunes/iApps store than you did when you owned half as many Apple devices.
Holding a 10" tablet (or even a Kindle Fire / Playbook - they're heavy) in bed while reading is tough. That's why I own a Kindle3 - if the iPad Mini get the weight down a lot over the iPad3, it will be enough for some folks to sway decisions to buy over other 7" tablets or e-ink ereaders like the Kindle/Nook.
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I hope BMW sues Apple for using the name Mini.
I'm used to 7-7.5 inches and under 300 grams of weight
That's what she said.
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How many slashvertisments are we going to have? Apple's paid sychophants are flooding sites with this stuff in attempts to kill sales of existing Android mini-slates. They are desperate to ensure the low end market doesn't buy their "apps" from Google's Play store.
Well, do you think things would be better if people now bought existing Android mini-slates - and then returned them in two months to buy a iPad Mini?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Sure ya don't, Apple drone. Nobody is buying what you're pushing, so go fuck yourself.
What am I pushing, then, if no one is buying?
If it's Apple products then that's clearly not right - Apple's market share in computers has grown year on year for over 6 years in an industry that is stagnant or shrinking. In the smartphone space Apple holds an enormous share, vastly in disproportion to the number of phones it makes, and sells them as fast as it can make them. And the tablet space should really just be called the iPad space.
So, if "no one is buying what I'm selling", what exactly *is* it that I'm selling?
The obvious answer, of course, is that I'm not selling anything. Nor am I paid to post, nor do I have more than one account. I also never post AC, unless by accident (in which case I will log in and post a correction).
You've made the classic schoolboy error of confusing someone who has a different opinion to you with someone who is paid to promote something. You'll grow out of it eventually, probably.
Who cares how well written it is, it is still content free. Nobody has leaked images yet
He said, not reading TFA http://blog.zoogue.com/ipad/exclusive-ipad-nano-images-surface/ http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/30/case-makers-start-teasing-their-smaller-ipad-cases-show-off-ipad-mini-renders/ - at least the back seems to be well covered.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
The sign of a true astroturfer: deny association. Just shut the fuck up, shill.
It's also a sign of someone being accused of something they are not guilty of. Truthfully asserting innocence. Funny that.
You're clearly following this thread, it would be much easier to do if you were man enough to log in, kid. Let's see who you are, eh?
It's amusing that you think that your brave anonymous orders for me to shut up carry any weight what so ever. If you were standing in front of me I don't think I'd be able to stop myself laughing right in your face, which is terribly rude but sometimes unavoidable.
It's a screen and a motherboard encased in plastic and metal. Design hipsters fap about these things, apparently.
Quite unlike the Galaxy Nexus, which is a screen and a motherboard encased in plastic and metal. Geek hipsters fap about these things, apparently.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Don't worry, I've read enough Gruber stuff to know better.
They are building it in their fab plants in China. Probably can buy it there already, maybe even running android (no joke, i mentioned before I had a student who bought her MacBook air with win xp installed, from an "iStore" too").
This is, by the way, clearly an advertisement, in the same way that product placement in movies are advertisements. You are just so accustomed to it you have trouble recognizing it.
Subversion of spatial scale luxury decoration ideas.
If I were standing in front of you, I'd snap your scrawny, pale body in half, little man.
Haha. Still following this thread eh, and still not smart enough to log in?
You're welcome to try snapping me in half. I suspect you'd end up with a broken arm. I assume you're highly trained in martial arts?
Were you trying to be intimidating? By posting a physical threat from a totally anonymous account? You just get more and more amusing kid. I'm not sure I've seen a more pathetic attempt to look macho.