As any iPod lover/user knows, Apple has a sm?rg?sbord of sizes in iPod variety: iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, and iPod Touch, most of them with a plethora of GB sizes.
So, with that in mind, WHY is Steve Jobs so violently opposed to having the iPad in a different size? I've read the often quoted comments from Jobs about a 7" screen size: "Tweener" he called them, dismissing the public's desire to have a smaller size of the 10" iPad.
But really Steve????? Four versions of the iPod makes sense but "One Size Fits ALL" for iPad? "Seriously", I say in my best Grey's Anatomy voice?
Before I bought my Galaxy Tablet in the scoffed at 7" size, I did 4 months of research, reading all the iPad rumours about the next iPad launch not being a 2.0 version but a scaled down size. I would have bought a smaller iPad in a New York Minute if it had been brought to fruition but it became clear that Steve (therefore Apple) had no interest in developing it.
I'm sorry, but carrying around a Clip-Board sized device is the last thing I'd ever consider for my highly mobile lifestyle! I laughingly say that I've "grafted" the Gal-Tab to my hand, because I drag that puppy everywhere! Despite the pricey upperscale grocery stores I frequent, I've yet to see a single person using their iPad at one, to do their weekly shopping. I do see, however, many an iPhone user reading their grocery list from their iPhone or iPod Touch.
I also looked at the items that I use throughout the day and loved the 7" size: my French-style wallet which is identical in size to a 7" tablet; my Sony Reader, which is the same foot print as the 7" tablet; any paperback's I couldn't download, which are also the 7" footprint. At no time in a normal day, was I holding or reading from anything that measured 10". Even the vast majority of my cookbooks aren't 10" and the few that are, I'm not dragging them around 24/7 in a briefcase.
If Steve seriously thinks that "size doesn't matter", ask any Porn Star or satisfied sex partner: 4" vs. 7" delivers a whole lotta more pleasure!LOL
So, out of sheer curiousity, if the next upgrade to an iPad was a smaller size, would you buy one if this was your FIRST iPad purchase? I'm definitely going to be buying an iPad for some serious science and cooking apps that I can't get through Android but to be honest, if a 7" iPad came out, I'd be all over that like white on rice!
So, with that in mind, WHY is Steve Jobs so violently opposed to having the iPad in a different size? I've read the often quoted comments from Jobs about a 7" screen size: "Tweener" he called them, dismissing the public's desire to have a smaller size of the 10" iPad.
But really Steve????? Four versions of the iPod makes sense but "One Size Fits ALL" for iPad? "Seriously", I say in my best Grey's Anatomy voice?
Before I bought my Galaxy Tablet in the scoffed at 7" size, I did 4 months of research, reading all the iPad rumours about the next iPad launch not being a 2.0 version but a scaled down size. I would have bought a smaller iPad in a New York Minute if it had been brought to fruition but it became clear that Steve (therefore Apple) had no interest in developing it.
I'm sorry, but carrying around a Clip-Board sized device is the last thing I'd ever consider for my highly mobile lifestyle! I laughingly say that I've "grafted" the Gal-Tab to my hand, because I drag that puppy everywhere! Despite the pricey upperscale grocery stores I frequent, I've yet to see a single person using their iPad at one, to do their weekly shopping. I do see, however, many an iPhone user reading their grocery list from their iPhone or iPod Touch.
I also looked at the items that I use throughout the day and loved the 7" size: my French-style wallet which is identical in size to a 7" tablet; my Sony Reader, which is the same foot print as the 7" tablet; any paperback's I couldn't download, which are also the 7" footprint. At no time in a normal day, was I holding or reading from anything that measured 10". Even the vast majority of my cookbooks aren't 10" and the few that are, I'm not dragging them around 24/7 in a briefcase.
If Steve seriously thinks that "size doesn't matter", ask any Porn Star or satisfied sex partner: 4" vs. 7" delivers a whole lotta more pleasure!LOL
So, out of sheer curiousity, if the next upgrade to an iPad was a smaller size, would you buy one if this was your FIRST iPad purchase? I'm definitely going to be buying an iPad for some serious science and cooking apps that I can't get through Android but to be honest, if a 7" iPad came out, I'd be all over that like white on rice!