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Does Apple Really Need A 7-inch Ipad?
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RonnieinSanDiego 
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 12:52 PM
It very well could be the next iPod Touch. While Apple might not want to make a smaller iPad, I can't see why they wouldn't want to make a larger iPod Touch. After all, the iPod Touch is due for an update.
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 01:53 PM
If Apple does a 7" tablet (call it iPad or iPod Touch), it needs to have a retina screen. That will keep Apple in the high end of the market and will provide the resolution needed for compact yet still full screen browsing.
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 02:25 PM
Jobs has already been proven wrong. The 7" tablet was not "DOA." Amazon is selling millions of them and getting valuable market share - not in the hardware, but in media sales. My bet is on some form of lower-cost, smaller iPad.
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 02:31 PM
fmbma99, on 07 July 2012 - 02:25 PM, said:
Jobs has already been proven wrong. The 7" tablet was not "DOA." Amazon is selling millions of them and getting valuable market share - not in the hardware, but in media sales. My bet is on some form of lower-cost, smaller iPad.
Kindle Fire is currently the number one selling non-iPad tablet. It's waaay behind iPad sales figures – but notably waaay ahead of any other Android tablet (It has 54% of the total Android tablet market).
Unless an updated Kindle Fire tablet is released very soon, I suspect that Google's Nexus will rapidly eat into that Kindle Fire market lead.
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 02:48 PM
McBeese, on 07 July 2012 - 01:53 PM, said:
If Apple does a 7" tablet (call it iPad or iPod Touch), it needs to have a retina screen. That will keep Apple in the high end of the market and will provide the resolution needed for compact yet still full screen browsing.
Amen to that. When I went to the retina display iPad from my iPad 2, I was (and continue to be) amazed at how much more readable it is. It combined with 4LTE is what made me give up using my laptop.
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 02:52 PM
Since Jobs is dead, his personal feelings on the issue no longer are the deciding factor for Apple.
For the most part I agree with him, but the reality is that there is a market for a well priced 7" tablet and an Apple 7" tablet could cost $50 more than the equivalent Nexus 7 and easily outsell it.
For the most part I agree with him, but the reality is that there is a market for a well priced 7" tablet and an Apple 7" tablet could cost $50 more than the equivalent Nexus 7 and easily outsell it.
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 06:46 PM
I honestly think the only reason Apple is considering an iPad Mini is to stick it to Google, Samsung and Amazon. I mean the iPad mini wouldn't affect iPad sales, it would only eat away at the lower end tablet sales such as the Kindle Fire and Apple knows this. The result will be bad for Android companies but good for consumers as the Kindle Fire might end up falling to $100 to compete with an iPad Mini.
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 06:56 PM
Why? why not a 6" iPad? Ergonomically, the iPad 2 and 3 are the best in their class. They are easy to hold and text and read. Personally I find that I have info in my pocket with the iPhone and an awesome portable device in my iPad and a beautiful reading centre in the iMac. you can't put a 7" device in your pocket and work around others as in health care or other workplaces as bulky as most want to be is the Otter Box and belt grip! What would Steve do?.... I think he would laugh and use an epithet that I think we are not allowed to use here! Bet we won't see this unicorn!
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 06:29 AM
RonnieinSanDiego, on 07 July 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:
It very well could be the next iPod Touch. While Apple might not want to make a smaller iPad, I can't see why they wouldn't want to make a larger iPod Touch. After all, the iPod Touch is due for an update.
I think you nailed it right on the head here so to speak. Call it a iPod Touch max? or iPod touch jumbo???, As per Steve's wishes it will not be a smaller iPad, Apple will not succumb to external pressures as we would like to think, however, to make a bigger iPod touch will not interfere with Steve's decree, of a 7 inch iPad.
as as you correctly pointed out, the touch is in need of a update and it makes sense to make the touch bigger, will it be 7inches? nope Apple will come up with a different size and factor, after all the iPad is not a 10 inch display its 9.7 inches to be exact. so any bets on a 6.7 inch?
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 07:18 AM
Whatever...
With taxes going up. Economy going down who cares about ipad or any other product. We are just going to buy what we NEED.
If IPAD could drive the price of others down.. good for me.. I will be able to spend less for what I need to make more money. Moreover we don't really need to worry about repair.. just change it.
With taxes going up. Economy going down who cares about ipad or any other product. We are just going to buy what we NEED.
If IPAD could drive the price of others down.. good for me.. I will be able to spend less for what I need to make more money. Moreover we don't really need to worry about repair.. just change it.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 07:20 AM
Personally, I hope Apple doesn't produce a 7 inch tablet. That way I can laugh when their market is taken away from them by the very size they claimed would fail. If they are smart they will realize what the pronounced as some kind of all knowing law is absolutely wrong and they better jump in the 7 inch space before Samsung uses it to take their sales away. I don't want to hear Apple crying about losing sales in the 7 inch space later on. They left the door open.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 07:24 AM
I just bought my Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 in April.. $239.99. Great tablet with two cameras and running Android Sandwich with GPS.. It is a wifi only tablet which is good for me since I have a hotspot from Clear.. With the combination I am very happy with it. Whatever you need to do on a tablet it does it. Even Voice search AND FOR THAT MONEY IT IS A NO BRAINER.
I am planning to buy the nexus 7 for my daughter when it comes out. There is no necessity to spend more than necessary and worry more about keeping it working and safe.
I am planning to buy the nexus 7 for my daughter when it comes out. There is no necessity to spend more than necessary and worry more about keeping it working and safe.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 07:35 AM
Oh by the way in the Galaxy tab 7.0 and the Samsung Galaxy III phone you can actually take the phone OFF LINE and GPS LOCATION MAPPING STILL WORKS!
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 07:37 AM
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Watch the Galaxy SIII. It's while especially when you put them together back to back to transfer pictures and information.
Watch the Galaxy SIII. It's while especially when you put them together back to back to transfer pictures and information.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 09:02 AM
fmbma99, on 07 July 2012 - 02:25 PM, said:
Jobs has already been proven wrong. The 7" tablet was not "DOA." Amazon is selling millions of them and getting valuable market share - not in the hardware, but in media sales. My bet is on some form of lower-cost, smaller iPad.
The Kindle Fire is not an equivalent to the iPad. It's more of a eReader with a color screen that can do some other stuff. The markets aren't the same, plus they're giving them away. Jobs could easily have said "a 7-inch tablet is DOA, unless they give them away"
