[coldtea]

>And why I wouldn't want them? Are you deciding what I want or not?

No, Apple's deciding and the market votes with his wallet (and judging from their actually buying stuff --and at the quite expensive end of the market at that--, it has voted much in favor of those decisions for a decade or so).

There's always some people, call them sui generis, or mavericks, or loonies, that do want a floppy drive in their laptop, and not even because they have a specific business needs. They just love these flexible plastic suckers. Others can't live without physical Blue-Ray disks (just as some people swore by Betamax or quad cassetes).

And in the case of phones, some just got to have a 440 dpi screen (despite not seeing much different from 300), near field communication, wireless charging, 4G support in 2009 when it would burn through batteries of the era in 1 hour, and what have you. It's their choice. Just not a very popular one, or what most people would call sane, especially going forward.

So, feel free to use whatever, just don't complain if it's not what the era you live in deems relevant.

[Oletros]

> No, Apple's deciding and the market votes with his wallet (and judging from their actually buying stuff --and at the quite expensive end of the market at that--, it has voted much in favor of those decisions for a decade or so).

So, when Apple said that the MINIMUM screen size for tablets was 10" people talked with their wallet and this was the right size.

When Apple released iPad Mini people talked with their wallet and this was a right size along the regular iPad?

> There's always some people, call them sui generis, or mavericks, or loonies, that do want a floppy drive in their laptop

Really, do you have top put a nonsensical analogy to try to defend the indefensible?

[coldtea]

>So, when Apple said that the MINIMUM screen size for tablets was 10" people talked with their wallet and this was the right size.

When Apple released iPad Mini people talked with their wallet and this was a right size along the regular iPad?

Is there even a question here?

Nobody said "10 was the one and perfect size until Apple added 7". Just that Apple releasing a 10" only, for the first versions of the iPad, was a wild success.

Apple had decided to release a 10, and then they decided to add a 7 to that line. Both were mass bought. So clearly both were good market decisions.

Other vendors had a 7 even before -- their sales were 1/10 the iPad 10 available at the time or less.

>Really, do you have top put a nonsensical analogy to try to defend the indefensible?

The "indefensible" being a company offering a specific feature set of their choice and not every possible feature desired by some users or offered by some competitor?

If the resulting products sell well, then surely, they didn't make a mistake in ommiting stuff.

I don't know how you can defend the contrary. Based on some unalienable right to get what you like in a specific product from a specific brand?