Just like Halloween treats , the iPad miniskirt will before long be here ! But you may experience the sugar crash now , as initiate and analyst are draw up to tell us how halting it is . Then the Macalope will close up by ask : Have you ever kick in an interview so tough you wanted to masticate your own arm off afterwards ?
More like the LamePad
No Apple product announcement would be complete without the horde of usual cuckoo tell us how laaaaaame it is .
No links for these two , of course , because of the Macalope?s standing principle against relate to those severe to themselves and others . But here?s Ewan Spence writing forForbes :
? Tim Cook blink away First – The Nexus 7 Takes Pride Of Place At The iPad Mini Launch ? ( point o ? the antlers toThe Loopwhich has an appropriately foul - mouthed response ) .
One thing is for certain , this is no longer Steve Jobs ? Apple .
In all of my meter cover Apple launch , this felt the most defensive presentation of small more than a ? me - too ? product .
Presumably a me - too of a me - too of the original by Apple . Yes , other tablet makers were first with a minor tablet material body factor , which , so far , is the only type of gadget that?s made any hint of a dent in Apple?s dominance of the market .
No , all you could sell it on is the Good Book iPad ? and Apple ? .
Right . When you take away all of its specific advantages , all you?re left with is a better user interface and build quality and more capacity .
Which , of form , are synonymous with ? iPad ? and ? Apple , ? which is how the troupe sells so darn many of them .
Let?s wind over to Gizmodo and see what the brainpan drippings over there are saying .
? Apple is a follower ? ( tip o ? the antler toMatthew Panzarino )
The iPad Mini is an obvious and bloated?both in size and price?response to last year?s Kindle Fire and this summer?s Nexus 7 .
Bloated ? Can none of these people do simple math ? The iPad miniskirt has a larger screen , but the gimmick itself is literally smaller and unaccented than both the Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7 , mostly because it?s so much thinner . So , unless the definition of ? bloated ? changed some clock time in the last 48 time of day , the Macalope will kindly point out that quarrel still have meanings and you?re doing it faulty .
Compare the Apple of 2012 , then , to the Apple Jagannath of 1998 to 2010 . That Apple didn?t react to markets . It create them . Who need a tablet before the iPad ? Who gave smartphones a 2nd thought before the iPhone ? Those products defined technology for a decade .
Jeez , Apple , it?s been two age since you remade an integral market ! What the heck are you doing over there anyway ? ! The Macalope?s not certain where this approximation that Apple under Steve Jobs spew out out a market - changing hit every quarter follow from , but it is a fiction .
Even Apple?s retail operation?one of its most unannounced strengths?was an unthinkable task before Apple thought it . And it still doesn?t have any imitators .
Well , no good one .
Being so sound for so long inevitably brings success , and winner brings size of it , and size bring in slowness .
So , what?s your excuse ?
How mind - bendingly out of speck with reality must a web site get before it?s declare fiction ? If Apple goes another few days without make over another merchandise class , then we can talk . Until then , just find something else to publish about .
Shoo .
Tripping
We?ve find out from some tech pundits , but now for the real interrogative : What did the Wall Street analyst have to say about the iPad mini ?
The livestock market response to Tuesday?s announcements was ? Totes not impressed ? ( or just ? Totes taking some receipts ? ) , but the analysts by and largeseem to have their head screw on rightfor once .
Sterne Agee?s Shaw Wu :
We extend to believe iPad mini is the competition?s spoiled nightmare and potential to drive incremental volume .
Wow ! potent words , Shaw . What say you , Baird?s William Power ?
The starting damage of $ 329 is slightly above our $ 299 expectations , though seems to be supported by the strong features and capability relative to 7 inch Android devices in the market .
Well put . Sure , we?d like it lower , but the best marketing tablet on the market just got cheaper . That?s gravy everyone can savour . Let?s go to Topeka?s Brian White :
The iPad mini was the star of today?s show and we conceive the production will be an sheer homerun for Apple with the 7.9 in display , 23 % thinner than the iPad 4th generation and 53 % low-cal .
Home . Run . A dinger . Out of the green . hint ` em all , Apple .
Well , this is all passably positive . Let?s keep going . Hey , how about you , Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities ?
fundamental take aways : Innovation at Apple is over ?
[ book clams ]
Buh - whaa ? Come again , Trip ?
Just incremental improvement , nothing grind breaking . The good is over for Apple . iPad miniskirt is playing catch up to Google Android , probably will have a mediocre client adoption .
Uh , hey , Trip , remind the Macalope how much tablet marketplace share ? Google Android ? has . Admittedly , it?s strong to secern because Google?s so proud of how well the Nexus 7 is selling that the company won?t tell us how many it?s sold . Same matter with Amazon , which doesn?t report sale of the Kindle Fire . While the horny one is sure the Kindle Fire stock is sell well than the Nexus 7 , it?s also not ? Google Android . ? The mostfavorableestimates of tablet market share for ? Google Android ? have it at half the iPad?s parcel .
And ? mediocre customer adoption ? , huh ? Then the700 percentage step-up in iPad resalesafter the event must be from people feed up with Apple and switching to those innovative ? Google Android ? tablets , huh ?
The Macalope opine that getting your butt kvetch in the 10 - inch place , then reduce the size to 7 inches and the gain margin to non - existent is akindof introduction , but it?s not on the nose something to be bluster about .
Saturday Special: Coyote ugly interview
? Apple iPad Mini May Cause Problems For Education , McGraw Hill Exec Says?(tip o ? the antlers to Chris Ebel and Anne ) .
? The almost instant obsolescence of the Modern iPad was a minute of a surprise , ? said Vineet Madan , elderly frailty Chief Executive at McGraw Hill Education , in a phone consultation with TPM .
Ugh , so right ! This third - generation iPad the Macalope bought half a yr ago is completely useless now ! Just look at it ride here with its somewhat slow processor and connector for which the Macalope still has a deal of free cables !
The Macalopehates it sooo much .
? If I were a instructor who had spent the last cent of his or her budget corrupt young iPads for students a few calendar month ago , I don?t bonk if I?d be too happy wake up and finding out that there?s a new iPad with a altogether different connective cable now . ?
expect , are these mythical school teachers harebrained about their old useless iPads or the fact that the new ace aren?t exactly the same as the old useless ones ? This is bring perplexing .
? If you?re operating in a classroom that has iPads , now if you require to upgrade or supervene upon a equipment , you?re go to have to maintain multiple battery charger , ? Madan mention .
Which is patently impossible , and it?s not like every other equipment used at schools don?t all have the same connector , COME ON , APPLE .
? On the one mitt , you look at $ 329 and you think that?s better for schools and college students who weren?t able to give the previous versions , ? Madan said . ? But it?s only $ 70 tatty than the full sizing version . I don?t have it away why you wouldn?t just pay the surplus $ 70 to get the full size variant , which is go to cater a good , richer experience . ?
Uh , because ?
Madan also acknowledged that at 0.68 Egyptian pound , the iPad Mini is easier for pupil to hale around in their bookbags and that the modest screen size ( 7.9 inch versus 9.50 inch ) would be easier for smaller digit to tap .
Yeah , that would be another way of looking at it .
Is it just the Macalope or does Madan seem to be not alone clean on his own point ?
Maybe the horny one?s in a generous mood today ( must be because of the Microsoft Surface launch yesterday ) , but it seems like perhaps TPM hollo up Madan , who gave a rambling , flow - of - consciousness consultation without really screw on the button what he want to say about the iPad mini . The Macalope?s been question and he can tell you it doesn?t always go as you wanted . You talk for a while and they say give thanks you and you think it went pretty well until you read the event the next daytime and say ? I state whoozits with the whatnow ? ?
dead of revealing that unicorns are real and you could all have one for a nickel , there?s really no way Apple can make everyone felicitous at these announcement . What matters is gross revenue , and the Macalope fully expects the iPad mini to sell quite briskly without make the huge allowance sacrifices Apple?s competitor have had to make . That?s good for Apple client and for Apple , no matter what you might hear .
