“Steve Jobs squashes rumors of 7-inch iPad”
“The reason we [won’t] make a 7-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit that price point, it’s because we think the screen is too small to express the software,” Jobs said on Monday’s quarterly earnings conference call. ”As a software driven company we think about the software strategies first.”
“We know developers aren’t going to deal well with these different sizes and they have to change their software every time the screen size changes,” he added. “When we make decisions on 7-inch tablets it’s not about cost, it’s about the value of the product when you factor in the software.”
Hallelujah. I’m not just happy to see Jobs confirm all the points I’ve been making, I’m also quite pleased to see him call Apple “a software-driven company.” Some interpretations would have you think he doesn’t, or didn’t, always realize that it is and should be.
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