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Originally Posted by JSWolf
iPad Mini if it really does come out which it very well may not given that Jobs thinks any tablet of 7" is too small for a good touch experience. But that would mean then that the iPhones have a poor touch experience since they are way smaller then 7". Way to dis the competition and yourself in the same silly statement.
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The iPhone isn't a tablet.
He didn't say you couldn't have a smaller touchscreen.
He said that 7 inch was too small to do a tablet style interface, rather than a phone style interface.
Hmm, hasn't it just been discovered that the new Google 7 inch tablet will be using their phone interface rather than their tablet one? Maybe they don't think Jobs was such a fool after all.
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Apple has done extensive user testing on touch interfaces over many years and we really understand this stuff. There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touchscreen before users cannot reliably tap, flick, or pinch them. This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps… The 7-inch tablets are tweeners. Too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad.
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