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These tablets may well do well.... until Tim Cook, at the next Apple announcement, says "oh yeah... one thing more... Steve once said that 7" tablets wouldn't work, but its a new day now.. Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Ipad mini... A 7" tablet priced at $299, running the latest version of Ios !!"
OK, that's probably fantasy right now, but if 7" tablets become popular over the next few months, that's a card Apple could play at some point next year. I don't think it would take all that much for Apple to do a 7" iPad. A smaller battery, the same processor than runs 1Pad 2, 8 gig of memory ,and they would be pretty much all set. They could launch it in the spring along with the iPad 3.
An iPad mini would pretty much crush the cheaper Android tablet crowd. It would have the right price, the same specs, plus the better Apple ecosystem, plus the familiar Ios operating system.
Right now, Apple doesn't need to do that. They're selling every iPad they can make . But they have an awesome ace in the hole.
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