On iPad ‘Mini/7′ colors, TV remote, pocket-ability, price and kids

Seth Weintraub writing for 9-to-5 Mac also gets the need for a smaller iPad.

Remember: Steve Jobs said you need to sharpen your fingers to use a 7-inch tablet. Well, kids have ‘sharp’ fingers and even sharper eyes, and the whole 10-inch experience scales down to a ‘scaled down person’ very nicely.

Hmm, where have I seen this idea before?

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Why the mini-tablet is the children's toy of the year

Mike Elgan, writing for Computer World, gets the reason why the iPad mini needs to happen.

iPads for children became a surprisingly huge phenomenon, which toy companies and others jumping on board with apps galore.

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