John Paczkowski

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So, What Was That You Were Saying About the iPad Mini Being Too Expensive?

Apple’s new iPad mini went on sale earlier this morning and already preorders for the white version of the device are sold out in all capacities. As of this writing, the black iPad mini is still available for delivery on Nov. 2, the day it arrives in Apple’s brick-and-mortar stores. Could supplies be constrained? Sure. But obviously the demand is there. Evidently, the premium Apple is charging for the tablet isn’t putting off consumers, as some had predicted. As we said earlier this week, Apple doesn’t need a $200 iPad mini.


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer