Back in 2010, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that smaller screened tablets were not sufficient to create great tablet apps and would be "dead on arrival", so rumors suggesting a new iPad mini is in the works reveals a potentially new direction for the firm in its post-Jobs era.
As the Amazon Kindle Fire steals the budget tablet show and with more small, cheap tablets coming all the time, such as the Google Nexus 7, Apple may well want to launch its own mini tablet-iPad Mini to complete its rivals and grab the potential Tablet market.
It is reported that iPad Mini will have7.85 inches Retina display and adopt A5X dual-core processor. Seeing from the recent news, the iPad Mini will be released later after iPhone 5, while iPhone 5 will be released on September 21. The news indicates that the Apple may also introduce a new iPod player simultaneously with iPad Mini’release.
The latest news claimed that Apple has officially named this small tablet as iPad Mini, when it releases, the official name of this product is iPad Mini, such kind of a name is in line with everyone’s expectation. After all, Apple fans have been accustomed to calling this name. In contrast, the name of the New iPad makes people very uncomfortable when the third-generation iPad hit the market, many people still like to call it iPad 3 instead of New iPad.
The news also unveiled that the new iPod Nano will provide support for Wi-Fi technology, and supports cloud iTunes service. In addition the new iPod Touch will also have the iSight camera, which is said to offer amplifications for NFC function. Seeing from the entire second half of the year, Apple’s several products will be released and sold which will benefit Apple stock. The analysis say that Apple's stock price will be expected to shot up to $ 800 before the end of this year, thus will also consolidate the world 's highest market value status it already has.
According to analyst Ben A. Reitzes, the iPad Mini would not be a threat to Apple's current domination with the New iPad, and is likely to be a favourite among gamers as well as educational the iPad Mini may herald a new era for those who long for an Apple device, but simply can't part with an arm and a leg to buy one.