Google's Nexus 7: if done right, consumers like 7-inch tablets.
(Credit: Google)
Steve Jobs' slander of the 7-inch tablet was, in effect, a nice bait-and-switch. One problem: rivals didn't take the bait.
Too much ink (yeah, me too) has been wasted on Job's proclamation against the viability of a 7-inch tablet (See Jobs' October 2010 comments below).
But that was hardly an absolute repudiation of a smaller tablet. Jobs' extemporaneous analysis of 7-inch tablets was merely a snapshot of what he was thinking on that day. Or maybe that month, at best -- as internal Apple e-mails now show.
Amazon, Samsung, and now Google have successfully ignored his sandpaper analogy ("unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of the present size." And, hey, what about the iPhone? That takes some pretty fine sandpaper.)
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