The Next iPad no comments
Digitimes is reporting that Apple will launch a new iPad the first part of next year with an ARM Cortex-A9 based processor and 512MB of RAM. The article goes on to say that Apple will also launch a 7-inch version of the iPad and a CDMA iPhone for Verizon and China Telecom. There have been rumors of the latter two for awhile.
I suppose that now the 7-inch iPad will be the latest official “Kindle Killer.” By the first quarter of next year I fully expect to see a reflective color display on the market, and this type of display will always be more comfortable to read on than a backlit LCD.
I’m sure that a 7-inch iPad will be very popular, but I also think that there will be a market for dedicated ereaders for some time to come. Dedicated devices generally perform the task that they were designed for better than multifunction devices. Furthermore, there are a lot of avid readers out there that want a device to read on, not to multifunction on. These are probably the biggest buyers of ebooks and therefore Amazon’s most important Kindle book customers. As long as this remains true, I don’t expect the Kindle ereader to die.
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