LOL..too late. I picked up my black 32GB Mini yesterday. I did the 10pm in-store pickup purchase method Tues night and got lucky and picked up my Mini Wed night.
I'm well aware of the annual refreshes. I am not a yearly Apple buyer. I am still using my iPhone4 (not 4S) and have no true need for an iPhone5, but I will in Dec b/c my camera lens is too scratched up to take useful pics. I have been using my iPad (original) until 1.5 months ago when I got the iPad3. But don't get me wrong, I have wanted every single iteration b/c I love gadgets.
So in reality, I've only been using Retina Display for 1.5 months. It is a gorgeous display. It's a well known fact of technology that things refresh incrementally and often. I don't get too bent out of shape over it.
After the iPhone5 came out and when rumors were flying that Oct would bring an iPad Mini would come out, I knew that was the form factor I wanted: smaller and lighter than my original iPad. The second I touched one in person, I wanted it. However, I was going to wait since I had no reason to buy it. However, the situation changed last week when we decided to get my in-laws wifi at their house and we would give them my iPad3 so we could FaceTime. Well, now I needed a new iPad. "Do I get an iPad4 or the Mini?" For me, it was no question that form factor wins over Retina display. I rarely bring my iPad outside the house, but I will now that I have a Mini.
How do I like the Mini? I like it. So far, the only gripe is that surfing in portrait mode is a bit fuzzy, but it's not a valid gripe. I use my iPad in landscape mode 99% of the time anyway, and surfing in landscape mode is sharper.
After all this, I have one lingering question. I just got Tapatalk last week when it was on sale, and just noticed a couple of the posts above this use the quote feature and their sig says they were using Tapatalk. How do I post a "reply with quote" in Tapatalk? I usually used Safari to do forum stuff, so I'm a Tapatalk newbie.
