Good point. It does create some very interesting price points. The iPad Mini 2 at 16GB is a really good deal (and definitely worth $50 more than the iPad Mini 1

Good point. It does create some very interesting price points. The iPad Mini 2 at 16GB is a really good deal (and definitely worth $50 more than the iPad Mini 1). Similarly, the iPad Mini 3 at 16GB is a terrible deal, but the iPad Mini 3 at 64GB is a much better deal than the iPad Mini 2 at 32 GB. I think Apple has actually done itself a bit of a disservice here -- they should probably have done something like: iPad Mini $229, iPad Mini 2 $299, iPad Mini 3 32GB $399, iPad Mini 3 64GB $499. Instead they have a bunch of SKUs that will just confuse people. But I suspect that they'd planned to roll out an A8X iPad Mini 3 with the new screen and had to pull back from that plan, and this is where they ended up. I frankly find it amazing that Apple can ramp up stuff this effectively, year after year. Consider that they're building a bazillion new screens in a new way and shipping it to a bazillion customers who are going to complain about the smallest defects.