Apple may kill the iPad Mini

[SecretlyTaco]

http://www.techradar.com/news/portable-devices/portable-media/apple-may-kill-the-ipad-mini-next-year-1271479

 

Seems silly to be honest, as far as I've heard, the iPad Mini is actually pretty popular.

[CtW]

They would never do this. The mini is a total cash cow and getting rid of it would be stupid.

[felixbearpig]

Why ;( I love my iPad mini . I hated my original iPad

[Sidiox]

I highly doubt this considering its massive success

[RelentlessAF]

Maybe they plan to replace it with a new line of devices that are similar.

[Katsu-K1L]

oh yea because me my sister and 90937349348 other apple slaves i know. have Got it for free without paying apple....

[snowComet]

I think killing the iPod Touch makes more sense than killing the iPad Mini...

[Hans Christian | Teri]

 

claiming that Apple's smaller tablet will see the end of the road in 2015.

 

Plot twist; What they really mean by smaller tablet is the iPhone 6 Plus (which would btw totally make sense).

[Speedbird]

Makes sense. The iPhone 6 Plus is almost as big.

[StingBull]

They wouldn't. It makes more sense to kill iPhone 6S, iPod Touch and even the regular iPad.

[SSOB]

Nah they won't...

[RedRound2]

This totally makes sense.

 

• They do have a 5.5 inch iPhone which should satisfy those who need a smaller iPad. Smaller tablets existed in the first place for portability as well as for the screen real estate which I think is mostly solved by a phablets these days 
• Its pretty obvious that Apple doesn't have much interest in the mini which was clearly evident by the very nominal iPad mini 3 upgrade when they could've easily made it thinner and put in a A8 chip. They really want to differentiate between a product they care and a product that they don't care much about. It only existed because of popular demand

The iPad Air 2 is pretty thin, light and portable too and could easily replace the mini IMO. And with the kinds of internal upgrades it got this year, I'm pretty sure they're cooking up some great exclusive features for the iPad

[SecretlyTaco]

Why ;( I love my iPad mini . I hated my original iPad

I have a first gen iPad and all I ever really use it for is watching youtube It crashes if I try to do much else on it. I personally don't really care too much for the iPad mini (too small for me), but I know most people really love having an iPad mini, can't imagine they would cancel it to be honest. 

[Victorious Secret]

Fix the formatting please, and follow the guidelines of this forum that are pinned right at the top of this subforum. 

[ROK]

Maybe just killing off the OG mini with the a5 chip?

[Tonylu1595]

Especially when all they did was add a touch ID

[Psykomantis00]

They just came out with a new version. It's not going anywhere. 

[theloveablemoose]

only iPad I'd buy.

[JoaoPRSousa]

They wont kill mine muahahahhahahha

[Horrorfull]

Kill the iPad Mini and bring on the iPad XL.

[timothy]

I dont know why they made it the first place .

Yes it was nice but it was slower and only a $100 difference. 

[dmegatool]

Stop suggesting the iPhone 6 Plus as a replacement. You would pay 350$ more (iPad Mini is 400$ so that's almost 2x) for useless features and a smaller screen... And the previous version still being sold which is another 100$ less. 

 

If they remove it, it's not because they're considering the 6 Plus as a replacement.

[SecretlyTaco]

Stop suggesting the iPhone 6 Plus as a replacement. You would pay 350$ more (iPad Mini is 400$ so that's almost 2x) for useless features and a smaller screen... And the previous version still being sold which is another 100$ less. 

 

If they remove it, it's not because they're considering the 6 Plus as a replacement.

Well, not all the features are useless, although I do agree that there's no way an iPhone is a replacement. A phone is a phone, and it won't run iPad apps or tablet versions of most iPhone apps. 

[dmegatool]

Well, not all the features are useless, although I do agree that there's no way an iPhone is a replacement. A phone is a phone, and it won't run iPad apps or tablet versions of most iPhone apps. 

 

Maybe they could disable the LTE chip making it wifi only and tweaking the OS so it runs iPad apps like it should. That would mean cutting the price quite a bit reducing the margin a lot. Not very Apple like. 

[zanduh]

IF they were to kill off the Ipad Mini branding it would only be to replace it with something they felt could canibalize and increase market share.