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Originally Posted by leebase
It's not valid at all. It's not valid because the iPad mini represents quite a bit of innovation.
It's not valid because all successful companies take successful products and branch them out. Various flavors of the iPod. Various laptop screen sizes, weights, builds. Colors. This is standard behavior and all successful companies follow it.
It's not valid if you actually consider a 7" android tablet counting as "innovation" and the iPad mini as not. Without the iPhone Android phones would be clones of Blackberry. Without the iPad there would be no Android tablets. The reason Android tablets championed the 7" form factor had to do with the inability to match the iPad's price at the large size.
Mind you, I do think there's plenty of innovation with the Android tablets. Just pointing out that if the iPad mini doesn't count as innovative just because 7" Android tablets preceeded it, then there's nothing that could be credited as innovative in the tablet space outside of the original iPad.
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Is the iPad Mini innovative? No, it is a smaller rehash of the iPad 2. The iPad 3 was innovative, offering a very high resolution screen. Are Android 7" tablets innovative? Very few of them. The original Galaxy Tab was. The 10" Asus with keyboard dock was. First 4G tablet was, first LTE capable tablet was. The Galaxy Note 10.1 is innovative (first real multi-tasking on a mobile OS with several open windows, new uses for the pen).
Apple didn't invent the tablet, they invented the tablet with mobile OS. There were Windows tablets going back to 2000 or so.