Rumor and guesstimation have determined that Apple may release an iPad mini next week at their March 7th iPad event, but weâre not too convinced!
Ever since Apple released the original iPad, there have been those who have anxiously waited for the company to release a smaller version. Even after Steve Jobâs himself openly mocked 7-inch tablets fans have still kept hoping (he didnât mock 8 inch tablets after all!).
Now, with March 7th less than a week away there has just been enough time of tech sites to speculate on how they believe a smaller iPad with 7.85inch screen will accompany the next generation iPad on Wednesday (itâs going to be an iPad 2S my Spider-sense is tingling!).
But next week there will be no iPad mini to compete against the Android in the small tablet market, a market which Android owns!
No Leaked Physical Proof
âApple are notorious for keeping a tight lid on their productsâ, if you have heard this line before you will no to make a half assed effort to make your cry of âBS!â sound like a cough!
Apple are terrible at keeping their latest products a secret, we now have more of an idea what Apple will be up to for the next 12 months than, for example, Blackberry, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Nokia, HP, ASUS, ACER etc!
This year Apple will release an new iPad (iPad 2S people!) an iPhone 5 which will actually feature some new hardware  (possibly a new dock connector), there looks to be an improved Apple TV on the way, I hope there is a new iPod touch, Apple iTV looks set for release and (please,please,please) improved Macbook Proâs with a more âAirâ design!
Why do we know all of this? Well leaked physical proof, Steve Jobs and talkative Chinese and Taiwanese Apple suppliers, none of which have offered real proof of a mini iPad.
Fragmentation
Apple donât want to fall in to Androidâs trap of fragmentation. For an Android dev to get itâs app working on the numerous Android display sizes available today is an absolute nightmare!
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For an Apple Dev however itâs as easy as pie! The current iPad has the same PDI as the Retina display on the iPod touch and iPhone 4/4S so apps work and look great on both!
As for the iPad 3âs (iPad 2S!) Retina display upping the pixel count shouldnât be too much bother, but most importantly Apple are leaving the old iPad screens behind and they will be pretty much obsolete this time next year while everyone is clambering over the iPad 4, so theyâre not worried about them.
The iPad is âPerfectâ its bloody âMagicalâ
No one describes their companies products as âMagicalâ not unless you are brimming with pride because you have just launched the dream product you have always wanted to make!
Well the iPad was Steve Jobâs baby, and not to sound too British but he was well chuffed to show it off!
To Apple, the iPad is the perfect size, itâs big enough for consuming, and is more than capable of creating thanks to the generous screen real estate, yet itâs small enough to fit in to all buy the tiniest of âfanny packsâ.
For Apple to release a smaller iPad would be to admit 2 things to customers; 1) They were wrong about the iPadâs original size, 2) âPerhaps those smaller and cheaper Android tablets are worth looking at now Apple is making smaller tabletsâ is also a bad message!
The March 7th Invitation
The biggest clue to that Apple is not planning a smaller iPad launch next week is the fact they didnât show, or even hint at it on the invitation for the March 7th event!
What they have shown is an new iPad with what appears to be a much better Retina display, or it could be a camera trick, either way this is what Apple wantâs us to speculate about.
If Apple were planning a 7.85 inch iPad for launch next week wouldnât they have added a tagline to the event invitation such as âItâs not the size itâs how you touch itâ ?, (too cheap?)
Let us know what you think in the comments section below, and donât forget to flame, or troll or whatever it is you do, when I turn out to be wrong!
