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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Same device in a different size. Hasn't Apple done that before?
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Well, yeah, but that is not the point. The point is that His Steveness often explained why a tweener would not work...
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Originally Posted by Steve Jobs during a 2010 earnings call
One naturally thinks that a 7-inch screen would offer 70 percent of the benefits of a 10-inch screen. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. … The reason we [won't] make a 7-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit [a lower] price point, it’s because we think the screen is too small to express the software.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jobs citing Apple's research
There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touchscreen before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them. [Higher resolution] is meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of their present size.
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