New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I'm planning on replacing my Pro, all 476 pounds of it, with a 27" iMac, so I've been following the rumor mill for a few months now.

Will they finally do the redesign this time...

tempted by the new iMac but wondering if I can get back to desktop after years of stay-at-home MBP laptop

pick up an imac + mini ipad, you're set

what if the new mac mini is a miniature version of an imac with a tiny screen and tiny keyboard and mouse

what then, fanboys?!?

I...already have a screen and a keyboard and a mouse, so I'll just hook them up to it.

Haha, you'll have to buy the tiny little wires!

oh noes

steve jobs would never have let this happen

I will summon his zombie.

what is the point of the ipad mini i wonder

anyway for all except a few specialized situations, imac + ipad is pretty dope

what is the point of the ipad mini i wonder

― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cheaper

The iPad mini is basically a handheld "Fuck Amazon" sign.

anyone else having trouble running updates on your apps?

idk, have you held up an iPad for an extended amount of time while reading a book?

isnt an iphone the ipad mini

sure i do this all the time, book in left hand ipad in right xp

http://www.oakbog.com/Tech-Ubicomp-2010.html

See they're just fulfilling the xerox parc model

maybe I should clarify, I meant reading a book on the iPad, but I have ashamedly also done that

haha

i'd consider an ipad mini but not a normal sized ipad .

the ipad mini is probably a way to boost apple's lolbooks offering

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The iPad mini is supposed to be smaller

I'd consider a normal sized mini but not an ipad mini

iPad minis smaller

The idea of there being a market for a tablet sized between iphone and ipad baffles me.

my mom wants one, she also wants it to literally be a phone

I think she's the mythical Samsung Galaxy Note consumer

have you used a kindle for reading books, it's a nice size, not annoying to hold up for long periods of time

Kindle Fire and Nook Color both sell and have multiple iterations.

if this thing has a low-res screen it's going to be shit to read

lol @ how many resolutions app developers are going to have to support, btw

Gruber linked speculation a ways back that the iPad mini could have the same resolution in pixels as the iPads 1 and 2, just denser

Smaller

don't really see what the difference is between the ipad and ipad mini

iPad has a 10" screen, iPad mini is for women to absorb their menstrual flow

it's the o.b. of tablets.

don't really see what the difference is between the ipad and ipad mini

nobody will until next week

someone just asked the skritter people whether their iphone app would work 'on the iPad minis'

this is pretty much a defensive move by apple to stave off kindle/nook/android tablets, it's more about price point than it is about form factor tbh

it'll cannibalize some ipod touch sales but a smart business move if they want to continue to own the tablet space

if priced right this will end up in a lot of kids stockings this xmas

little bastards

always shoplifting

my wife got her 8gb iphone 4 for free from verizon, there's no other smartphone with that same deal. apple's goal at this point seems to be mass saturation to keep their ecosystem thriving, which is smart because it's how they continue to hold off competition (e.g. windows phone and the new blackberry will be DOA when the tumbleweeds are seen rolling through their respective app stores).

they're huge enough to do some loss leader action and still come out ahead so the thing I'm most curious about the ipad mini is price point. signs point to $249 but $199 would absolutely demolish the competition.

I haven't read much about this but know people have brought it up...but how can they win on price when a Kindle Fire is already cheaper than an iPod Touch, so everyone's assuming the iPad Mini has to cost more than the Touch, no?

no

iPad mini cheaper than all but one of the iPod touches seems crazy to me, but Horace agrees: http://www.asymco.com/2012/10/17/ios-portfolio-price-distribution/

they're not really winning on price so much as providing good value at a huge range of price points

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