Over the past several days I’ve thought more about the place a smaller iPad would have in Apple’s lineup. I’ve been in the camp that says a 7.85-inch iPad doesn’t make sense, in part, because it does nothing better than the iPhone or existing iPad, making an iPad Mini a poor replacement. After giving the [...]
Over the past couple days, the talk of the town has been on a forthcoming 7-inch iPad. The rumour itself is nothing new, thanks in part to the misconception people have that just because everyone else is doing it, Apple has to, too. They forget that despite Apple only having one iPad form factor (9.7″), [...]
Retina-optimized graphics are awesome, we all pretty much agree. But there comes a trade-off with such: file-size. TUAW’s Mike Schramm summarizes the issue: The most obvious drawback is app size. Those bigger graphics take up more space, and for many graphics-heavy applications, that could put them over the cellular data download limit (now at 50 [...]