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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
Haha. I get a chuckle when I read stuff like that. The experts say "Such and such is doomed for *arbitrary reason 1* and *competitor's* continued dominance!" Then... Later on, they have to hope that the articles get conveniently forgotten...
Warms the soul.
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Indeed it does my man. Indeed it does.
I don't know how many articles I have read saying that the iPad would kill off the eReaders. That a 10" (actually 9.7") size was necessary. That anything else just didn't give the "experience." The "magic."
I don't know if all these professional writers got to keep their complimentary iPads when they wrote all these glowing reports or what.
On the other hand they also are currently writing about the Samsung Galaxy 5" player and the Galaxy Note and say that the screens are just too big to use. They then bring up the iPhone and iPod Touch with their 3.5" "ergonomic" screen that allow a normal person's thumb to cross the whole screen and say that is the only way such devices can be used effectively, so of course 5" is awful and will fail, and why the heck do they manufacture such junk.
There is always this push back on anything that seems to threaten an Apple machine.
And now their predictions and analysis is being proven wrong.
Mighty fine feeling. Mighty fine.
On another note, the prediction is that a new smaller iPad will be coming. It will be 7" they say, but the actual dimension is closer to 8" I don't know if that is true, but if it is, we will soon hear from these same sources and pundits that you get the "experience" and the "magic" from the smaller size as well. No doubt.