It's widely expected that Apple will release a 7-to-8-inch tablet next month. Will it be the "iPad Mini" as many have been calling it? Or will it be a larger iPod Touch, as has been debated?
My experience using Google's Nexus 7 Android tablet suggests to me that it might not matter.
The rumored Apple tablet got renewed attention last week, after court documents in the Apple-Samsung patent dispute revealed that even after Steve Jobs famously dismissed 7-inch tablets in October 2010, Apple was still internally discussing the idea.
How have we gone from Jobs seeming to declare that 7-inch tablets (specifically Android tablets) made no sense to Apple appearing likely to release its own tablet with a similar form factor?
The world of tablets has radically changed. First the Kindle Fire and now the Nexus 7 have ushered in a new era.
The rebirth of 7-inch tabletsLet's itemize the things that Jobs believed were wrong with the 7-inch Android tablets back at the end of 2010:
- Too expensive
- Too small for good touch control
- Too big to be mobile
- Android's software wasn't tablet-re... [Read more]
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