At the end of 2010 Steve Jobs charged against the small screen tablet and ruled that 9,7 inches was the bare minimum to have an acceptable user experience. However, in early 2011, Eddy Cue told other senior company officials about the receptive was Jobs towards the idea of launching a iPad Mini. I had been testing 7-inch Samsung devices and found great advantages when it came to read, watch videos or use social networks.
All this is framed in the dispute between Apple and Samsung. Samsung presented a few days ago a internal conversation by email from Apple executives to show that the Cupertino company is also “inspired” by the movements of its competitors.
Eddy Cue, director of Apple's Software and Services department, claimed to have been tinkering with 7-inch Samsung Galaxy tablets and, although they were not the best option to navigate on the internet, he did find them very practical when it came to “check email, read books, watch videos, or use Facebook”. As if that were not enough, I had achieved convince Steve Jobs of its usefulness. "We should do one," he sentenced.
Despite Jobs staunchly advocating that 10 inches was the appropriate minimum size for a tablet to be comfortable for an adult, it seems that his position was, more than anything, a product of his situation: until he had a 7-inch device. '' would not enter defend it. But this is a very particular character trait of Steve Jobs, which Eddy Cue said was an "awesome flip-flopper" (an incredible weather vane).
The email is part of Cue's private conversation with company strongmen Tim Cook, Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller and is further evidence of what appears to be a shouting secretApple has an iPad with a 7-inch screen in the oven. Virtually no one doubts that this is the case, nor that the September 12 It will be the day when it is made public, along with the launch of the iPhone 5.
