Tim Cook has a decision to make. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Once more, it’s time to discuss Apple, so once more I’ll invoke Taniyama-Shimura and look at the world of the seven inch tablet and the iPad.
When it was Steve Jobs running Apple it was easy. Jobs would say that something was silly, impossible, and a bad decision, until the moment that Apple announced a product that would revolutionise that area of technology. After some investigation, it will turn out that Apple has been working on said technology for a few years, internally iterating like crazy to get the perfect product.
With all the talk of a 7 inch tablet I keep coming back to Steve Jobs dissing the 7 inch form factor when talking about the iPad. Given Apple’s previous form, that leads me to think that seven inches is bad… until seven inches is what consumers need. Strictly speaking, all the talk is now over a 7.85 inch tablet thanks to some nifty arithmetical calculations around display panels and pixel density (here’s Andy Faust’s explanation).
