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Originally Posted by HansTWN
But that doesn't mean that the iPad mini is an innovative new tablet that is way ahead of the competition.
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Who said it was "way ahead of the competition"? The iPad mini is a small iPad. It runs the 270,000 "made for iPad" apps without modification. It's the app ecosystem of the iPad that is way beyond Android at the moment. In that way, the iPad mini will find it's market.
It took innovation to bring the iPad down to size while remaining enough of an iPad to satisfy the customers. Takes innovation to keep the battery life while shrinking the size and weight of the battery. The iPad 2 is still selling, so I can't see how an even better resolution of the iPad mini is deficient....same number of pixels in a smaller area equals better resolution.
To say the iPad mini represents innovation in no way equals "nobody but Apple is innovating". Google Nexus 7 represents innovation, as do the Amazon and B&N tablets. They will each find their markets.
Google and Amazon have both admitted that they sell their tablets at cost. Something is VERY right with Apple in that it can make it's tablets and sell them for a profit. The competitor who has to work very hard, and then sell for no profit, is not the competitor who has the stronger product.