Apple exec liked 7-inch iPad, Steve jobs reported ready to accept the speculation

Apple exec liked 7-inch iPad, Steve jobs reported ready to accept the speculation While Steve jobs may have famously said a7-inch iPad was too small, others in the camp were more available to thinking.

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The trial between Apple and Samsung has yielded several different juicy bits, recently available being that Eddy Cue, head of Internet software and services, was truly interested in the method of smaller iPad. Cue thought isn't a 7-inchtablet perform, he wrote at an email sent to Jobs.

The email dated January 24, 2011 with Cue's thoughts was disclosed during Samsung's cross study of Scott Forstall, head of iOS software at Apple. Samsung was arguing that Apple keeps benchmarks against other companies.

Samsung had launched the 7-inch Galaxy Tab this holiday season, together continued to push the smaller tablet whilst simultaneously it expanded into few different sizes.

On his email, Cue wrote he previously approached Jobs utilizing prospect of a smaller tablet to Jobs using a amount of occasions after Thanksgiving and also that Apple's CEO was receptive "the last time."

Apple is widely considered to be preparing its own smaller iPad Mini that should be unveiled later for 2010. The machine would play competitively with the Amazon Kindle Fire, this cute Nexus 4 case type of successor product, and Google'sNexus 7, as both versions are 7-inch tablets costing $200.