iPad mini announcement meta-liveblog

5. plgladio posted on 23 Oct 2012, 12:22 1

Not excited but have to see what it carry under the hood..

8. -box- posted on 23 Oct 2012, 12:36 1

Not in the slightest.

Ray does though, but that's expected from Ray.

18. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 23 Oct 2012, 12:59 1

And it happened, knew it was too good to be true. Had to drag an Android device into the event.

19. plgladio posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:02 0

Haha good to compare with a powerful device always, to check your speed

20. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:03 1

Comparing it to the iPad full sized would have sufficed.

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26. Commentator posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:09 2

Typical Apple. They take an Android device, the Nexus 7, and bash it because its screen is smaller than the iPad Mini's. Never mind that this is a completely arbitrary comparison, and there are Android tablets of pretty much every screen size you can think of, up to 13 inches diagonal. But that's how they define "blowing past the competition" I guess...

35. tgtftw posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:28 0

Well yea, I mean come on its only $130 more than the closest competitor. Makes perfect sense #sarcasm.

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28. Commentator posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:10 0

Let the crap-storm of outraged comments from people who bought the 3rd gen uh... SEVEN MONTHS AGO begin...

16. MobileCaseReview posted on 23 Oct 2012, 12:56 0

Windows 8 is headed in the same direction in terms of OS.

24. techspace posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:07 0

now apple did that to save the bigger ipad's marketshare.........android tablets are announced almost every week, so the people will feel screwed on seeing newer things on any platform

33. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:19 2

LOL, AAPL was climbing upward until the Mini prices were announced. Now it's tanking fast.

25. -box- posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:07 1

More profit, and leftover components from the ipad2 apparently

32. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:17 2

Doubt it, it's more like a planned upgrade pathway to keep repeat buyers. Never buy the first iteration of any Apple product, unless you have no plans whatsoever of upgrading.

31. plgladio posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:17 0

You will be answered only they both come to user hands for comparsion. Until then no idea..

34. structureman116 posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:22 0

That would be great...the only problem is that us Android users would end up traveling 2+ years back in time by picking up the most recently released Apple gadgets! No thanks!

39. -box- posted on 23 Oct 2012, 15:25 0

Only two years?

Thankfully there are other choices. I would suppose that apple would lose more of its share before android would, especially since that's what is already trending.

37. TylerGrunter posted on 23 Oct 2012, 13:34 2

And you are making a real favor to the iPad mini, actually the Nexus 7 has 1280x800 while the minipad has 1024 x 768.
With the bigger screen the final difference is that 216dpi for the nexus and a quite ridiculous 162 ppi for the iPad mini. Talking about retina...

38. vishu9 posted on 23 Oct 2012, 14:24 0

Good point.. Wonder what Apple would say about that.. They have always been very vocal and hyped up about their Retina displays on the iPhones and iPad 3.

40. bkb01 posted on 24 Oct 2012, 00:39 0

of course the smart choice would be with the device that has the "RETINA-ISH" 162ppi , IOS6 , no googlemaps and priced at 329$$$$.. its a no brainer man:/s