Lets wander over to Gizmodo and see what the brainpan drippings over there are saying.

Apple is a follower (tip o the antlers to )

The iPad Mini is an obvious and bloatedboth in size and priceresponse to last years Kindle Fire and this summers Nexus 7.

Bloated? Can none of these people do simple math? The iPad mini has a larger screen, but the device itself is literally smaller and lighter than both the Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7, mostly because its so much thinner. So, unless the definition of bloated changed some time in the last 48 hours, the Macalope will kindly point out that words still have meanings and youre doing it wrong.

Compare the Apple of 2012, then, to the Apple juggernaut of 1998 to 2010. That Apple didnt react to markets. It created them. Who wanted a tablet before the iPad? Who gave smartphones a second thought before the iPhone? Those products defined technology for a decade.