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And this is a *reading* dominated forum.
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It ceases to be purely a reading forum when people make blanket statements about the uselessness of specific hardware and the obliviousness of everyone who buys it. That means examples of other uses need to be brought in. Moreover, it doesn't matter who "dominates" a forum because this isn't an S&M club or even a consensus. It's a collective conversation.
A number of people (yes, even on MR) have said their primary use for a tablet might be different from that of the average reader. No one has told them to get lost or to shut up and none of us would, because their concerns are every bit as valid as that of the majority.
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Given the constraints on application behavior that Apple imposes it should surprise nobody that a reading-oriented forum should prefer reading value-add functions available in non-iOS environments.
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Aren't you imparting attributes to an assumed forum consensus which really belong to you? There are also a number of people here who prefer reading on iPads, and their exact number shouldn't render them valid or invalid.
Last time I leered, this was about the best experience for the individual, not the chosen device of the majority. This isn't really a global gadget election, is it?
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In this venue, the consensus leans against the Mini because it really has nothing meaningful to justify the price to readers looking for a premium reading experience.
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But to determine its value to "readers," you'd actually have to use the device, and neither you nor I nor anyone else here has done so, and even if we had, our findings would only apply to us.
Truthfully, I'd be far more interested in a Samsung/Nexus tablet than an iPad at this stage if it weren't for certain necessary software. But that doesn't mean the iPad Mini is automatically irrelevant.