Fanboys frolic on recyled rumours of Q3 iPad Mini debut
Tech speculation will eat itself
Take care with fresh claims that Apple will have an 'iPad Mini' out in Q3: they seem to be simply repeating a similar claim made back in March.
Then, Taiwanese moles said the Mac maker would have the scaled-down iPad out in the third quarter - or at least launched within that three-month period. These claims echo rumours whispered in December 2011.
The new report, from Chinese-language site Ease Apple, says exactly that. Confirmation of sorts the earlier claim? Not really, no - the Ease Apple article cites "Taiwan media reports".
Ditto the suggestion that the small iPad will cost £249-299. That figure seems to have been taken from past stories too.
Likewise the speculation that the 7.85in fondleslab is designed to spoil Microsoft's Windows 8 launch - or at least the new OS' appearance on tablets.
The Ease Apple piece does talk about iPad Mini shipments totalling an "estimated six million", but it gives no indication who has made that estimate. Probably some unnamed mole of Taiwan tech industry newssite DigiTimes'. ®
COMMENTS
Fanboys frolic on recyled rumours of Q3 iPad Mini debut
Shouldn't that be :
El reg frolics on recyled rumours of Q3 iPad Mini debut again
There was a young(ish) fanboi called Reg
There was a young(ish) fanboi called Reg,
Whose wallet was bursting with wedge.
He said, 'If only I had,
A smaller iPad,
I'd be tastier than meat and two veg'.
Aye thang yow.
Re: I don't understand
The iPhone is pricey because it includes a phone!
iPads are pricey because people will pay that and because bigger screens cost
A replacement for the ageing iPod touch priced at a point that stops anyone else entering the market sounds like good sense. And it drags in nice profitable appstore and iTunes customers who couldn't afford a $500 iPad and might be looking at Androids
current iPad2 screen res of 1024x768 shrunken down to an 8" screen ... whats the ppi on that? Better, obviously, but how much better?
It would make selling 2 ipads make more sense than the current system of "have this one thats shiney and now, or this one thats from last year and just makes you look a bit cheap to your friends". At least "portability" would be a better justification for buying lower spec.
