believes that Apple can sit comfortably with its 10in iPad while Google and Amazon send the price of Android tablets plummeting, eliminating higher priced Android tablet competition, and therefore benefiting Apple.
, on the other hand, said: "There's certainly competitive reasons for Apple to introduce a product like this."
"Given the antagonistic hostility between Apple and the multi-headed hydra which constitutes the Android army, it seems unlikely Cupertino wants to give its enemies free reign in the space," Evans continued.
Evans notes that a smaller iPad would be good for consumers with a tight budget, educators, parents, children, eBook readers, enterprise customers and retailers looking to adopt iPads as part of their NFC rollouts.
Others disagree, including , who reports that "There will be no 7in iPad, I guarantee it!"