There's lots of rumours about an Apple event on the 23rd to announce an iPad Mini, but still I can't really see how it fits in, or where it fits in. It doesn't make sense to me. Not to say that I couldn't be wrong, and not to say that it isn't just a reaction to all the other tablets of about the same size that everyone suggests an iPad Mini might be.
But if it does come out I can't see how it will distinguish itself or differentiate itself at all.
Maybe Apple will pull something amazing out of the bag. They haven't for a while, but it is possible, I suppose.
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I'm slightly confused about why you feel this way about this Ashley. I would thought that you would be the first to admit that you would love the idea of a smaller iPad? You certainly have lusted over smaller Android tablets, so why not an iPad mini? Especially if it turns out to be cheaper, it's surely a win-win for everyone on a pocket music budget is it not? :)
For me its as simple as price. I can't afford the current price of an ipad, so if its as cheap as people are predicting (approx £200) then I'm getting one. But yeah I can see what your saying.
I'm holding out for the iPad XL, give me a 17 inch screen and I'm all set
There's a thing that would differentiate that mini iPad: an stylus. That would make it much more usable for graphical artists as myself. Even for the music apps, I still find much more handy to work on the DS-10 than on any iOS app on my iPod Touch. Plus, a wacom-style stylus would make the little screen to work just as it was bigger, so original iPad apps woudn´t need any tweak to work just fine.
Of course there is always the iPad XL!! lol!
Ashley, I think this is the real reason we're about to see an iPad Mini. Being a father of two, my eldest in her old school started using iPads as a classroom and homework aid, the school required us the parents, to pay for the iPads, rather than the devices being supplied from the school's own budget. For a child, the existing iPad is quite hard to manage. But a smaller (and cheaper) one? Microsoft worked hard to get a PC into every British classroom throughout the noughties. The iPad mini I think is Apple's response. :)
http://9to5mac.com/2012/10/17/amazon-making-moves-to-displace-ipads-in-schools/
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