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My main concern with 7.85" mini iPad rumors has always been the questionable usability of apps designed for a 9.7" screen and appearing scaled on a screen 35% smaller.
That was one of the starting point of the reflexion on the Missing Link few months ago.
Now, this solution is not perfect: a device this size, while missing in Apple offering, has probably too much trade-offs, it's still too big while not big enough.
I finally think that rather than to make only one device in the middle, this size (and then, kind of usages related) could be approached with two different devices, one smaller and one larger. Namely, a larger iPod Touch and a smaller iPad.
But I still was circumspect about the real usability of a shrinked iPad.
To my knowledge, the 7.85" rumors are only speculations, quite consistent, based on probable easy availability of 163 ppi screens for Apple, and at 1024x768 the size fall in the good range and allow to run iPad apps.
Sure, using a screen at the same pixel density as the original iPhone ensure the 44 px large minimal touch area used on both iPhone and iPad to appear at the same physical size on the 7.85" screen. But would it be as comfortable as to use apps on the 9.7" iPad?
What is just good enough for a phone because of its small form factor constraint can be adressed with larger size devices. And the 44 px constraint was kept with the iPad although, because of the lower pixel density, the physical measure is bigger.
While fingers size doesn't change when moving from an iPhone to an iPad, losing the precision needed to have when using an iPhone is welcome when using an iPad, even more when the screen is not as close as with an iPhone.
But more importantly, the quantity of data you can display (image, video, text) is relative to the surface of the screen and the area allocated to content in an app and the physical size it will be on screen.
I doubt a 35% smaller (surface) screen would always allow to do the same tasks. I'm not sure apps written for the 7.85" could always be easily written to also efficiently use the 50% larger surface that the 9.7" screen is. If every app have to look good and to be usable on the 7.85" screen, losing data area for UI elts, then wouldn't they only look like as expanded version of the 7.85" UX on the 9.7" ?
Even if an iPad app could be usable on the mini iPad, inevitably some apps would require work from developers to ensure support of the 2 sizes. At the exact same resolution, they'd have to adapt to the smaller screen, maybe sometimes using bigger font size or bitmaps elements because it now becomes too small. etc. And doing so, apps would then appear with too big elements on the larger iPad. Or you'd have to be able to create apps UI for each iPad size separatly...
App developpers wouldn't do like before when they only had 1 size of screen to target, and could lead to deteriorate apps' UX on the 9.7".
If you only use your iPad for watching photos or videos, it is maybe not really important. But most people use their iPad for way more things, and especially deal with a lot of text, and first of all read it as part of UI elements. And then there is e-mails, webpages, books, calendars, etc.
I'd welcome the idea of trading the quantity of data displayed on screen with the comfort to use a subset of it displayed at the identical size to on the 9.7" iPad.
Auto Layout coming to iOS, and helping to consider Apple could change its iPhone screen size and resolution (including aspect ratio, but not necessarily) while maintaining app compatibility with the different screens sizes, provides a solution to the previous problem (a link to some details and some videos examples).
What if, rather than simply shrink the whole iPad interface and apps on 7.85 inches, Apple and then app developers took advantages of Auto Layout for a new and smaller iPad, allowing apps to adapt to screens while maintaining identical the physical sizes of elements on screen?
After few seconds in a calculator, a 1600x1200 screen at the same pixel density as the retina iPad (264 ppi) is about 7.6".
This is not exactly the same case as going to a larger (vertical 16:9, or in both directions 3:2) iPhone screen. Here the screen is going smaller.
Auto layout is not resolution independance, but is one more brick to help manage different screen sizes (as soon as variation are limited: the point is not to help create apps working on both a pocket-size device and a tablet-size device, but, on two sizes of devices of the same category).
At first, before app updates [when necessary], every 1024x768 standard iPad apps could as well be rendered full screen by iOS (but then shrinked), the retina screen smoothing the scaling on bitmaps elements (about similar with the 1920x1200 highest resolution on the retina MBP, where the 3840x2400 resolution is being scaled on the 2880x1800 pixels of the screen, iPad apps could here be scaled down on the 1600x1200 pixels from the 2048x1536 resolution).
Would 40% less pixels allow devs to create apps running on both iPad variants?
Is Auto Layout capable to help create UIs for 2 iPad sizes?
Apple most likely would re-use mainly iPad 2 hardware for its iPad Mini (update). Would it be able to give a good experience and deal with the pixels of a 1600x1200 screen?
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Here is a quick mockup of a 7.6" mini iPad, the thin lateral bezels as shown here could allow make it only 125 mm wide.
This aims at illustrating layout adjustment. Every element and font is then displayed at the same size on both screen, but the vertical difference imply less lines on the small one. No trade-off in experience but a smaller screen logically imply less data on screen.
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Side idea:
With the assumption that iPad apps with Auto Layout could support smaller resolutions (relatively close to the full size),
It becomes easy to imagine some kind of Exposé mode allowing to temporary display a condensed (and not miniaturized) opened app from the app switcher on top of the current app opened, interact with its content, then slide it back to the app switcher to go back to the original fullscreen app - or - switch to the condensed app going fullscreen.
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This one was on sale in the 'Energy Home' raw vegan restaurant in Pondicherry. Yes... raw food... and vegan! Even the idli [rice and mung dumplings] and dosa [rice and mung pancakes], the traditional south Indian foods, were raw. And amazingly, they tasted really great - both succulent and spicy.
Wholesome green salads, let alone pure raw food, and what to speak of vegan food, are absolute rarities in India. Food is generally fried and double-fried - and drizzled with ghee for good measure. But this place was doing a roaring trade.
In Energy Home, you can get white lotus and hibiscus coconut milkshakes and strange ayurvedic herbal jams and sweets. If you're going to Pondy, check them out: Chetty Street, off Mission Street...
Pondicherry, south India.
"Oh no! I seem to have shrunken!"
My friend Bri is Alice.
The bird who doodied on the table was named Sporty Spice.
Steve writes: "Here’s another case of the grocery shrink ray. I found this while shopping last weekend at the Target in Oaks, PA. Both containers are the same price. The container on the left (25.7 oz) is quickly being phased out by the container on the right (23.2 oz) – roughly 10% less. Interestingly, the new container is actually designed to look slightly bigger."
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Harvey Comics (also known as Harvey World Famous Comics, Harvey Publications, Harvey Comics Entertainment, Harvey Hits, Harvey Illustrated Humor, and Harvey Picture Magazines) was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers Robert B. Harvey and Leon Harvey joined soon after...
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HARVEY COMICS' Dark Secret
It was in January 1951 that Harvey Publications published their first horror comic book, Witches Tales #1. In June 1951, Harvey launched another horror title, Chamber of Chills...
Of the four titles, it would be Chamber of Chills that would become the most notorious. The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide entry on Chamber of Chills notes that, "About half the issues contain bondage, torture, perversion, sadism, gore, eyes ripped out, acid in the face, etc."
While Chamber of Chills has often been singled out for its high degree of depravity, it must be pointed that out that all of Harvey's horror titles had more than their share of gratuitous violence. In fact, one issue of Black Cat Mystery may have more gore and brutality than any six issues of Tales From the Crypt combined...
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CHAMBER OF CHILLS was a 10-cent horror anthology published bimonthly by Harvey Publications that ran 26 issues (June 1951 - Dec. 1954).
This series began with #5, since four "Chamber of Chills" issues had previously been published as #21-24 of another series (Chamber of Chills). It then continued for twenty-two issues until it became Chamber of Clues.
Artists included Bob Powell, Lee Elias, Rudy Palais, Howard Nostrand, and Kremer.
Issue 7 is mentioned in Dr. Fredric Wertham's scathing 1954 indictment of comic books Seduction of the Innocent (p. 389).
Chamber ceased publication following the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings of 1954.
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