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It looks good. The 7.9" screen size may hit the sweet spot for smaller form factor tablets, my rooted Nook Tablet feels just a wee bit small at 7". I'm not an Apple fan but I'll be surprised if Apple doesn't sell these things by the truck load.
Reading and signing a short document might be okay, but I'm talking about reading a 40 page article or a full book. While it still might be doable, it's not comfortable like it is on a full-sized iPad. At least for me...maybe you have better eyes than I do.

I know the Nexus has a higher-res screen than the iPad mini, but I suspect it will still be more comfortable to read PDFs on the mini due to the physically bigger screen size.

On the other hand, text on the non-retina iPads look terrible to me now. I wonder if that's still the case on the mini, or if the reduced physical size will make the text rendering look passable.
wow, it's way more expensive than the nexus 7. $330 vs $200 for the bottom.
I'm not sure, I can see it from the VC point of wanting to return on investment as fast as possible. It does seem like it creates an industry based on ship it, sell it.
The ipad 1, 2, and 3 all competed on price. The macbook air is also competitively priced. The ipad mini costs at least a hundred dollars too much. It may sell well, but it definitely doesn't compete on price.
Was hoping for $299, but it still looks like a nice product.
a folding screen would be good.

especially if the underside was also an eInk display
Sad.

If AMD wasn't there in 2004, forcing Intel to (effectively) drop the Itanic and do what customers actually wanted - the AMD64 platform - we'd either be much farther back now in terms of x86; Or would be much farther in terms of ARM; (or both).

AMD's gut to do AMD64 helped us all.
This is actually not too far stretched of a claim. The panel on the n7 is generally considered to be lower quality. ppi aside.

I personally would still go with the n7, but this claim if done from a image quality aspect is probably true.
I guess it's best to go with language you are most comfortable with and you know best. This will save time learning a new one for startups.
The resolution, they are putting retina displays in macbook pros but launch a tablet with non-retina display. Why?
Why does it cost more than the Kindle Fire HD but has way worse specs? Apple have shot themselves in the foot with this launch. I'm so disappointed in the iPad Mini.
My money is on them shipping it pretty much for the Lightning connector and beefing the specs up to at least make it look like an upgrade.
Zynga is clearly a household brand you can trust.
If you're rooted you can use the method oulinned here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1811101

Needless to say there should be an option to do this without having to root.
After clicking on "Shop iPad" it's interesting that they place an ad next to the iPad mini for the regular iPad saying "Just as stunning. Twice as fast." The regular iPad is only $170 more.
I was thinking that you could have the client pass in a couple of hash values, and then use linear combinations of them to get a bunch of independent-enough hashes. This is mathematically fine, and hash functions are a dime a dozen when you're not in redis-lua-land. Paper justifying this technique:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/tr-02-05.p...
I have a Nexus 7. Technically it's great, but in reality the screen creaks when you use it, it's pixelly (despite having 1.4 device pixel ratio), the headphone jack only works at a certain angle and most apps are awful (some exceptions, but most big brands have worse Android apps than iOS).

It came with Google Play credit, but I can't find anything worth buying. I'm sure there are things, but I can't find them.
Apple competes on user experience. Not price, and certainly not specs.
I've been looking forward to this product since the rumors started. I've owned iPads and iPhones and iPod touches.

The iPhone (original and 4S) were both great devices but too small. I could carry them everywhere, but the reading and browsing experience was cramped, by necessity of the small screen.

The iPad (original and Retina) are big, and lovely for reading and browsing, but too big to hold with one hand. This really is an issue for me, the way I sit when I'm reading... it ends up limiting my use of what otherwise would be a fantastic device.

So, the mini seems perfect. Light enough to hold, big enough to get a fantastic reading and browsing experience. I know it will be a little cramped compared to the iPad (well, expect it will be, but the same resolution original iPad was not cramped at all) but that's a fine tradeoff for being able to use it, literally, everywhere.

I like that they decided to start at $329 with 16GB, about perfect pricing for me. We spent over $650 on our retina iPad with LTE, and ended up not using the LTE much at all.

For our startup, which is heavily involved in iOS, and all of us have iOS devices, we will probably buy 2-3 of these minis.

In fact, I think I'm personally, done with the iPad and iPhone... I don't need the phone part (which is why I've mostly bought iPod touches) .... only went with it because the original iPad was not as portable as I'd like.

So, I'm totally stoked that this device is as it was rumored... I see no downsides to it at all.
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>See Path, Foursquare, Turntable.fm, Tumblr, etc.

Gasp How could you forget Quora! :)
This is a great response. I did not watch the keynote, though as a Nexus 7 owner, I keenly feel the dearth of apps. Music creation apps, in particular, are absent from Android because of poor support for low latency audio in the SDK. Most of the time, however, I use the Nexus 7 to browse the web, in which case, I imagine it performs roughly as well as the iPad mini, except with the higher information density.

>The iPad's screen is a much higher quality IPS display than the N7.

I'm curious how you know this. I understood the Nexus 7 screen to also use IPS. What makes the one in the new iPad better?

>Of course, I'm going to expect all of this in a tablet with a $70 higher price point.

My Nexus 7 was $199. Yes, it has less storage space than the mini, but the difference between getting an Android tablet and and iPad is actually $130, not $70.
I don't think the current issues with tablet apps on Android are due to fragmentation and something about Android lacking quality standards. The tools to create a robust, good looking app on Android are the same tools for all devices and the Android team at Google has done a tremendous job in creating (and still improving) developer tools to handle so many different device types.

A large part of the issue has to do with the low adoption rate of tablets to date on Android and a general lack of focus on polish for Android apps. Ultimately the developer community and business haven't gotten behind Android in the same way as iOS and the result is apps that aren't well thought out or are missing support beyond phone-type devices.
I made the payment, they said they will send the login information, but it's a half an hour already.

Is it scam?
That’s completely irrational. Being livid about something like that makes exactly zero rational sense.

It would had Apple withheld stuff on previous models, but it doesn’t look like they did.
The company I founded has custom hardware and a custom OS (not, e.g. Linux or Windows -- closer to an embedded RT OS), and our "for sale" product is SaaS.

We actually have four different hardware systems, ranging in size from a 1U box that goes on site, to a full rack that's basically a turn-key cluster with no external configuration (just plug in ethernet and power, and assign static IP addresses).

All of our hardware is based on Intel motherboards and chips, especially the E3/E5 series. This eliminates the long prototype cycles, since we use off-the-shelf hardware. The only real prototype cycle for us is choosing components and the case (!), which we did with 3D CAD software and a machine-shop-as-a-service we found on the Internet.

We went this route for reliability and performance (especially, latency), and then getting those two at a reasonable cost. By only paying for the hardware we need, and configuring it to exactly what our product/service needs, we're able to meet our product and business needs while still maintaining healthy margins at a cost our customers can afford. I wouldn't change a thing.

We also face all of the problems you mentioned (how to deal with inventory -- our hardware has a comprehensive 3 week burn in time), how to deal with repairs/replacements in the field, etc, and how to get the capital needed to sustain startup-scale growth. They're real problems.

Like most hardware-based companies, we're able to do this only with outside funding, but at least in our case (the enterprise space), we don't need any up front funding to stay cash-flow positive with slow growth, and we developed a rather innovative way to get the funding that we do need to fund fast frowth (hint: not through VCs). This took a lot of effort at the business-design level, something I suspect most tech startups don't take the time to do. It's pretty much mandatory if you're going the custom hardware route and want to grow fast.

One major positive of going the custom hardware route is the elimination of competitors. No YC-backed company going the standard AWS route can possibly compete with us -- not on cost, not on performance, not on latency, and not on reliability -- not even close. Controlling the whole stack, from hardware to OS to software is why we can do what we do at the price we do it, and grow at the rate we expect to grow.

I'm not sure we could make our approach work in the consumer hardware space today, but in the enterprise market, it's ideal for us.
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Apple: Pay more for less......and again in 6 months.
Are you upset when a car manufacturer releases a new model every year?
I love that you can buy the 2013 model of a car in ~September 2012.

Jeep are taking that to a new level.. In Jan 2013 they are going to begin selling the 2014 Grand Cherokee..

(I realize the gap from iPad3->iPad 4 was less than a year, but that happens in the car market too)
Has this been corroborated outside of that tweet yet?
$129 can be a bit short for the stuff that does not exist at all.
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That's very subjective. When I first bought my iPad (1st gen) I treated it like a baby, but now it's just like a paperback book; I throw it on the couch, carelessly shove it in a bag, squeeze it among clothes in a backpack. It can handle that, and I bet the aluminium back will still look better than rubber after a year of heavy use.
Retina MacBook Pro 13”
The poor specs lead to a poor UX, so I fail to see the difference.
Two reasons: price and ease of development. The non-retina display means that apps won't need to be updated to run on the new device, which is a big win for developers.
Sweet AAA mac games for sale today
I don't know why everyone is so critical of Zynga trying to hide this news among the Apple stories -- what is the argument for not doing so? "Hey guys, lets make sure EVERYONE hears that we're closing down offices and laying off employees, this is going to be important"

Would you have acted differently?
I'll pay the extra $120 so I can take it out of the box and log into my icloud account and have everything sync onto it.

Well, that's assuming I needed/wanted a smaller ipad.
One of the best parts about my Nexus 7 is that it fits perfectly in my back pocket (and even front-jeans pockets but that's much less comfortable). Having a tablet on my person (i.e. not having to reach inside a backpack to get it out) has been a great convenience.

The increase in width from the 7.9" screen is surely going to mean that this won't which is a pity.
To compete with the cheaper Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7. Less costly for Apple to make the mini.
Make Windows 8 games with Construct 2
The user did authorize it by having automatic updates turned on. To use the term crashing is disingenuous.

90% of the updates I have received haven't required a reboot.

Windows 8 also warns the user on the lock screen during the three days that a reboot is necessary/impending like so http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...
For those who have already invested quite a bit into the Apple ecosystem, bought a lot of apps, etc., I think the iPad Mini sounds like a more logical choice.

I do agree that it's a bit on the expensive side but that's always the case with Apple products. I'd buy it over the Nexus.
How underwhelming.

At 7.9 inches, it’s perfectly sized to deliver an experience every bit as big as iPad

What does that even mean? Either it's perfectly sized, and the iPad is the wrong size. Or it's not. There can surely only be one perfect size to deliver an iPad experience??? Either it's 10" or it's 7.9".

I think Apple's marketing has always been the same - it's just that for a while they were ahead of the curve and so their hyperbole was justified. The iPhone was amazing. The Macbook Air is still amazing. But there is absolutely FUCK ALL amazing about a smaller fucking iPad.
>Anyone can hire tonnes of people, pay them, provide a service/product, and still deliver negative equity returns. Anyone.

Well I don't think anyone can successfully pitch investors and take millions of dollars of their hard earned (sometimes) money, but agreed on the other points.
> absent from Android because of poor support for low
> latency audio in the SDK

I know this was the case with the previous versions of Android, but Nexus 7 is running the latest and I was under impression that this was fixed. Is it not true, or is it indeed fixed, but no apps yet?
Meh, 164 PPI isn't bad, and this resolution allows them to run legacy iPad applications unscaled.
It's not so much that the shown Android apps are pieces of shit, but they have a huge, glaring flaw if devs aren't willing to or can't get company support to get their app working well on as many devices as possible, which is Android's biggest strength in the first place.
stop and frisks, as they are practiced, are already illegal by law

If that is the case, how can anything found in those frisks be admitted as evidence in court? If the search is illegal, anything found would be poisoned and therefore inadmissible. Or do the people being stopped never actually fight any charges being brought against them (understandable, given whom the PD targets)?

Regardless, it is a disgusting practice that needs to be stopped. Along with all the other practices of our para-militarized police departments.
While your analysis is correct objectively, the Apple fanboys are a subjective group of people. They won't mind paying. I don't disagree with you, though, it's overpriced.
> In 2011, in New York City, 685,724 people were stopped, 84 percent of whom were Black and Latino residents — although they comprise only about 23 percent and 29 percent of New York City’s total population respectively. 2011 is the highest year on record for stops. The number of stops represent an over 600 percent since Mayor Bloomberg came into office. In 2011, 88 percent of all stops did not result in an arrest or a summons being given. Contraband was found in only 2 percent of all stops. The NYPD claims their stop and frisk policy keeps weapons off the street – but weapons were recovered in only one percent of all stops. [1]

Just the sheer number of stops is pretty crazy. That's an average of almost 1,900 stops per day, which makes the 1% of stops that recover a weapon a substantial number, as well.

[1] From http://ccrjustice.org/stopandfrisk
It also saves you a network round-trip and a surprising amount of code complexity.
The GPUs required to run it would currently take up way more space and (figuratively) melt straight through the mini's smaller battery; not to mention price.
This is sort of reminding me of the argument that programming language features are pointless because all languages are Turing-complete anyway.
Is that domain publicly accessible? Could facebook@(any domain you know exists).com be a reasonable shot in the dark?
I'm really disappointed by the screen's resolution though. I don't even think I'm the only one. Cuz the (current) iPad has a 264 dpi screen, whereas the Mini has a 162 dpi screen.
With their announcement speech so full of contradictions, it seems like they're struggling to differentiate the Mini from the cheaper Nexus 7. The major appeal is its small size, but in comparison to the Nexus 7 they emphasize how much larger it is (albeit lower total resolution). Seems to be a clear case of presenting weaknesses as strengths, which will, unfortunately, probably succeed with many existing Apple customers. The two compelling advantages over the Nexus 7, the presence of a second camera and the availability of cellular capability, were barely mentioned.
Same with Italian, although occasionally people do use the past rather than the subjunctive, but it sounds pretty bad; much worse than "If I was".
I recently attempted to do this while burning an Ubuntu ISO to a USB stick - the restart countdown will still progress even if the update server is off.

Shutdown -a didn't work either.
Zynga Laid Off 100+ Workers In Austin, Closes Down The Ville Game
important to shareholders so they can dump that garbage like the ceo dumped shares of his own (garbage)business...
Apple generally releases a non-retina device first, for a couple reasons.

Mainly, they are usually on the cutting edge of manufacturing technology for their parts. This year it is lamination, and there are only so many factories capable of doing this kind of lamination. I think doing the lamination for a retina display at this size would have restricted the manufacturing options and that capacity they'd rather put into the new iMac, Macbook Pros and retina iPad.

Secondly, cost. Retina is 4 times the pixels, and presumably significantly more expensive. A smaller display like this at the same resolution as the original iPad is going to be closer to retina than the original iPad.

Thirdly, it gives a nice upgrade for the future, to incentivize people to replace their device in a year or two. When the cost of the retina technology has dropped enough they can upgrade the mini to the same resolution as the iPad retina.

For new products, Apple tends to choose a mix of cutting edge and safe. The A5 is currently in volume production so it is a safe choice, where it was cutting edge last year, for instance.

Apple also has a food-chain. The newest processor goes to the newest product, and the secondary products (like the iPod touch and now iPad mini) which are in more price sensitive market positions (for instance the iPhone is subsidized by carriers but the iPod touch is not) tend to get the established one-generation-behind processors that are already cheaper to make. This way the A5 design lasts longer and the manufacturing capacity that is making it can keep making it.... while the A6 works on the lower feature size (requiring a more cutting edge fab).

For instance the A6 is, I believe 20 or 22 nonometeres, while the A5 was made on a 32 nanometer feature size.
Because other companies don't announce news on Friday at 4:00pm...

Or because the White House doesn't make important news announcements on Christmas Eve when nobody's paying attention...

I don't think this is a Zynga dick-move. I think this is a typical company move to bury a non-flattering story.
We've been using GitLab for about six months and it has been great. The developers iterate very quickly and they are totally receptive to pull requests (have had a couple accepted and one rejected for good reason).

If you install it on Ubuntu, their wiki has instructions that you can pretty much copy and paste; the most complicated bit probably being the gitolite setup, which is what it uses internally for repo auth.
Not when the software is superior.
I don't see why it's an advantage. They made it smaller than gloat that it's bigger.
That was a WTF moment for me.
From parent of your response:

>Mouse over on the bottom left of the screen + Click + Wait for Metro interface to pan into view

Please, please, please, please do something about that bottom left corner mouse crap. I use a Windows Server 2012 VPS via Azure and that is the one thing that drives me insane when managing the server. Not getting a response until my mouse disappears from sight seems so wrong. It sours me on the entire OS almost. I don't understand why the server OS was shackled with the Metro interface, it's horrible for that use case.
$329 for WIFI only? No thanks!
You'll have to define what a "tiny number" means in this context, but I've certainly returned a bunch of stuff to Amazon over the years that I've been a customer, and they haven't cut me -- or anyone I know personally -- off yet.

Their return policy is decent but not particularly generous or anything: if you return something that's not defective, you have to pay the freight back to them, and they have to receive it before they issue you the credit. I suspect their return rate is fairly low compared to retailers with more generous policies (e.g. Zappos, REI, LL Bean, etc.).
I'm also waiting for this. I feel suspicious even though it wouldn't surprise me much from Zynga.
Because if they already have revenue, they have numbers around who and how many people are willing to pay -- there's at least something to go on and they get valued like any other company. Investors start with that and calculate forward how much they'd be willing to pay for future revenue and growth.

The start-ups with no revenue don't have that, so they make guesses about what their market can or will be, which is often over inflated and rarely accurate, but nevertheless is the basis for how much people invest. Investors in this scenario take those numbers and then back into what they think the value should be. Or worse, they compare it to other hyper-inflated companies and arrive at a valuation via group-think.
The password is not what is used to authenticate to the ssh remote. The ssh private key is still used, it's just locked on the client side. You unlock the private key with the passphrase, and then use the unlocked (unencrypted) key to authenticate to the remote.

By using a password-free key, your private key is sitting in plain text on your local machine, which is a potential security risk.

(Apologies is your question is more nuanced than my understanding.)
Ask HN: Can you install your own memory in new Mac Mini?
If UX was determined by specs, why would we have a different name for it?
I ask since when are apple products judge by "isn't bad"?

And yes, it is this resolution solely to support legacy applications, possibly to reduce costs. But i can only speculate on the latter.
Both Google and Amazon have said they're pretty much making nothing on their respective tablet offerings, I imagine the iPad Mini is going to make a healthy amount of money in the long term.
I totally agree. I really like my iPad for a lot of things, but it has been disappointing for pleasure reading of books because it is just too heavy.

Given that my primary use case will be reading, I now have to decide between a Kindle Paperwhite or the iPad Mini, with the one additional input that my kids would love to have another iPad in the house.
>There's less of it, but no less to it.

I must say, I've consistently been impressed with Apple's copy writing.
Tell me at the login screen what your disallowed characters are.
$200 Nexus 7 has 8Gb storage, iPad mini base model has 16Gb. I still think $330 is a little high though.
isn't bad?

The original android g1 had greater PPI (180) than this thing.
I'd say their excellent marketing provides them with the profit margins needed to afford development of several iterations of the products so that they can be as good as they are.