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Is it just me, or does this rumor come up every 4 months? It just doesn't make sense for Apple. The $250 price point really pollutes their offerings, because
by cube13 14y ago
Is it just me, or does this rumor come up every 4 months?
It just doesn't make sense for Apple. The $250 price point really pollutes their offerings, because it overlaps the pricerange for a brand new iPod Touch. Given that they're both non-phone iOS devices, the only products that Apple can cut into is their own sales. Also, Kindle Fire sales have cooled pretty considerably lately, which is making me suspect that there really isn't that much of a market for the smaller form factor tablet. That's a shame, because I really do like my Fire's form factor, and consider the iPad to be a bit too big and unwieldy.
- phoobahr 14y agothis. the only way this makes any sense to me at all is if apple decided to sell a sorts of ePad and sell to institutions only.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoWould it make sense to just kill the iPod Touch in favor of this new form factor? I'm not that familiar with the Touch but it always just seemed like a "non-phone iPhone" to me. And to be honest, the iPad always seemed like a "large Touch" or a "large non-phone iPhone" to me anyway. So it doesn't seem that strange for them to realign the products to phase out the Touch and phase in a smaller iPad. The iPod line has gone in a different direction and the Touch doesn't really fit with the iPod brand anymore, does it?
- bdr 14y agoThe key difference is that the Touch fits in your pocket. An iPad mini wouldnt, so you might as well make it as big as you can comfortably hold in your hands.