The iPad Mini: Why the Nexus 7 Has Never Looked Better

The iPad Mini has finally been unveiled and it leaves a lot to be desired. While I’m usually not swayed by unnecessary device spec details, I cannot but wonder why Apple went for a non-HD screen. The simple truth is that things look better on HD screens. Presently, the main contenders in the 7 inch tablet segment all have screens that are capable of displaying 720p HD. While the iPad Mini can display 720 pixels across (in width), it is not true 720p HD as the 720p standard is 1280 x 720. A standard which all the other contenders (Google’s Nexus 7, Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet HD) meet. Apple’s retina display is irrelevant because the screen on the iPad Mini is not true 720p.

Apple Demystified

This article is a brief examination of Apple’s strategies before and after Steve Jobs’s death. Steve had many qualities: he was a talented visionary and as Apple put it: a good Editor in Chief. And I might also add, a distortionist of sorts. – This is an allusion to his famous self professed ‘’reality distortion field.’’ It is this last quality that is the focus of this article.