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Originally Posted by frahse
I have to disagree on what most say about a 7" iPad. I believe that Apple could sell a 7" iPad at the same cost of a 9.7" iPad or even say $50 cheaper and sell a lot of them. Some of the regular iPad customers would get them so they could more easily carry them about.
Simply put:
7" iPad for $499. Convenient. Fits most purses and man-purses. Also inside jacket pockets.
They don't have to compete on price. The Apple aficionados would buy it for the regular price, but if they needed an excuse, they could just say they didn't expect to have the same volume for the 7" product.
(I hope "Apple aficionado" isn't considered name calling.)
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The first thing that they could worry about is the fact that making a 7" iPad would be like saying that Steve Jobs was wrong. I don't think that the new management is at that point yet.
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Chief executive Tim Cook said the idea of combining the iPad and MacBook Air would "wind up compromising" both.
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I was saying that they would have the same perspective on making something between an iPhone and an iPad.