Survey shows the iPad mini creates new market for Apple, rather than eat into iPad sales

3. shandesilva posted on 14 Nov 2012, 06:43 7 4

just as the ipad, ipad mini. iphone 5 are so so boring...iphonearena articles are getting even more boring. after all its most of the time "i this" and "i that" and how wonderful that " i crap" is.

5. PapaSmurf posted on 14 Nov 2012, 07:00 4 1

Under Ray S's eyes, every product from Apple is perfect.

6. Commentator posted on 14 Nov 2012, 07:08 8 0

You mean like how PhoneArena only posted 12 articles yesterday on the Droid DLX? Golly gee, I wish they had posted more, it's like they don't pay attention to Android phones at all...

Yeah, it's not like it's their job to post news about the iPhone and iPad, so I can't imagine why they do it...

7. TheLibertine posted on 14 Nov 2012, 07:10 0 0

Well said. PhoneArena does their best to cover every aspect of the mobile world. Not only those the majority of fanboys would like to hear about.

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10. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 14 Nov 2012, 07:16 1 1

Agreed. PhoneArena is balanced, they just post a lot of what is happening at that moment in time. I don't have a problem with that, it helps me make better purchase decisions when I have more information.

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18. shandesilva posted on 14 Nov 2012, 09:09 1 0

balanced !!!!:)?....since when? havent you been reading all the damned biased articles about i stuff?

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19. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 14 Nov 2012, 11:37 1 0

Considering how much has been released by Apple recently, why yes, I have read a lot of
"i" articles. I also read a lot of MS articles when the W8 tablets and phones were released. Yesterday I read a lot of HTC DNA articles, as well as Nexus 4 articles.

If you can't see they post on all the OS' out there, take off you 'fan' glasses and look at things with neutral eyes.

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24. shandesilva posted on 14 Nov 2012, 23:28 0 0

its you who have to remove the glasses & see..whatever glasses you are wearing..i glass or iphonearena glass...
there are all kinds of useless, silly articles about "i" stuff : the 1st guy who got the i5..etc. is that really necessary? & do they give that kind of publicity to other brands?
and i m sorry if you havent noticed how biased there reviews and comparisons are when it comes to the "i"s. plain & simply biased..! just 2 days back i read someone writing one of the lumias as an ugly phone! and anyone who read the htc 8x and i5 comparison article, would testify. you only have to read couple of sentences in that article to understand how biased the writer was.

you dont appreciate the facts because you are the one who is wearing glasses..not me. !

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20. rusticguy posted on 14 Nov 2012, 12:48 1 0

Specially how one got ripped by buying a mirror at gas station thinking it to be ipad, a pregnant woman getting robbed of her iphone etc etc. Such articles surely is a deviation from being "balanced" ... i am sure someone from PA will warn me for posting this and who knows even limit me for 2 weeks :)

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11. darkkjedii posted on 14 Nov 2012, 07:42 0 0

Exactly they report a ton on iOS android Sammy moto. People it's a tech news site. Gee wiz

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14. -box- posted on 14 Nov 2012, 08:04 1 0

Yet again, the survey size makes the results unusable. Not enough people, unknown demographics (for all we know this survey was held outside an apple store inside a mall), and unknown actual sample size. (I.e. 10,000 were interviewed, but only 1,225 were kept to make the results work and skew the actual facts). Not only that, there aren't many minis being sold, they have the highest return rate of an apple product right now (up there with the retina-display macbooks since they are having issues) and highest percentage return vs sold since the iphone4 fiasco.

23. networkdood posted on 14 Nov 2012, 15:15 0 0

Yeah, maybe they took the survey in Beverley Hills or San Fran...lol

12. darkkjedii posted on 14 Nov 2012, 07:44 3 2

Ok u said that a million times now. The thing is gonna sell to those whom it appeals to, obviously not u. So y do u keep saying that dude?

15. -box- posted on 14 Nov 2012, 08:06 1 3

because average consumers cone here for info, so pointing out a significant fact is relevant and useful?

17. darkkjedii posted on 14 Nov 2012, 09:01 2 1

Oh please This is a tech site the average consumer will simply walk into the store and Inquire there. The average consumer is not going to respond to negative bashing of the product they simply want to see for themselves. Techies come here

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8. Commentator posted on 14 Nov 2012, 07:11 0 0

Well, they're making less profit per iPad Mini sold than per iPad, so if anything they've gotten less greedy.

13. Valdomero posted on 14 Nov 2012, 07:44 1 0

Actually they're selling the iPad mini's way more expensive than they should've cost

16. Commentator posted on 14 Nov 2012, 08:07 1 0

Well obviously, but the normal iPad sells for much more that the cost of its components as well (it's called making money), but with the iPad Mini Apple is taking a smaller percentage of profit than they are on the regular iPad.

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