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Old 10-03-2011, 12:37 PM   #21
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Do you think Apple would have sold any fewer tablets had they come up with a 7 inch tablet instead of a 10 inch one? People bought what was on the market.
Yes, I think the iPad would have sold a LOT fewer if it had come out only in 7". At 7" you don't have a new device, you have a large phone. There isn't enough extra room to develop the kind of innovative apps that make having an iPad such a wonderful experience.

If a tablet was ONLY for reading books, then 7" makes sense. Book reading is but one thing the iPad is good for.

I do think Apple should release a 6 or 7" iPod Touch XL. iPhone/iPod apps run on a larger screen. But it would not be an iPad.

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