These rumors have in the past inevitably stirred up just as many arguments the idea of an "iPad mini." The most compelling of these arguments can be summed up in a single word: "Why?" As in, "Why does Apple need to make a smaller iPad when the company already has the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch?" As in, put bluntly, "What's the point of a device that isn't as pocketable as an iPhone or iPod but isn't as useful as an iPad?" (Usefulness, here, presumably being based on a device's screen size.)eavy--