The iPad Mini isn’t breaking news, that’s for sure. What I’m unsure of, though, is why I’ve read so much about it, and continue to whenever I look for my feed of tech news every day. Maybe it’s just me, but I just don’t get the iPad Mini. The iPad, that I get. The iPhone, or smart phones in general? Those I get too. Even Kindles and every other form of e-readers, but that’s because all of these mentioned items served a real purpose when they were released to the general public. They provided the need amongst consumers that their counterparts couldn’t.
The iPad serves the computer needs we want on the go, as e-readers offer the book worms in us the libraries we need to survive in the 21st Century, just as smartphones serve our need for information anytime, anywhere, and all within the palms of our hands.
The iPad Mini though? I just can’t understand, but I’m not trying to say I don’t understand the value of an iPad or of an iPhone. Yet why do we need a smaller iPad that fits into one hand, or a larger iPhone that we can’t fit into our pocket or use as a telephone?
And why is the Mini so expensive? $330 US dollars? You can get a Kindle Fire for a lot less. Or you could just stick with your iPhone 5 which will do everything for you in one hand, too.
I know it’s pretty, I know it’s cute, and I know that a lot of Apply fanboys and fangirls are going to get it. But from the bottom of my heart, I can’t help but call Apple’s iPad Mini the very definition of shenanigans.
