i would happily buy a iPad mini, but also as usual apple has brought down the apple store for an update, to me that says iPad mini! :)

I like this panel. I would be excited about the return of Buzz Out Loud :( (sorry, rip van-a-few-months-ago)

Those wondering about the venue, the California Theater comes with a great deal of history. From Wikipedia: "Opened in 1927 as the Fox California Theatre (originally with 1,848 seats), this movie palace was said to be the finest theater in California. For nearly 50 years the theatre showed films, until its closure in 1973. It was left vacant and dilapidated for many years, but reopened in 2004 after a $75 million dollar restoration project."

This over-hyped event is more for obsessive fanboys, and loyal uncritical embedded tech commentators who receive exclusive invites, rather than normal people.

Today Apple will use the fanboy factor to try and push Mac which after all these years still has only a puny market share — because most consumers evidently know they consistently get much more for their money by not choosing Apple.

iPad Mini is little more than an iPod Touch with a slightly bigger screen. How much more money can Apple extract from people with variations of iOS? iOS is old news.

I Wanna iTunes 11!!

Personally, I think the iPad Mini is an economical folly. No reason for it in Apple's current structure. They aren't losing customers to the Kindle Fire. Price points make the Mini a huge gamble and deviates from the Apple model which has been so successful.

The mini will solve a lot of size issues that limit educational use. As a parent, the larger size of the iPad isn't practical for my young daughter, but her iPod Touch is really too small for reading and using more complicated apps. An iPad Mini would definitely fill a gap in our family's Apple needs.

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@timacheson problem is people will still buy it. I see people all the time with multiple devices to do nothing but check email. Unecessary dependancy, but that is not a purely Apple only thing.

@timacheson @timacheson Unhappy about the Samsung/Apple lawsuit, eh? Too bad

All the products need Retina display. Google is coming in strong. The new Nexus 10 should give Apple more competition. I hope Apple's products come down in price.

Wish apple would throw a better graphics card in the MacBook Pro 13", the intel HD's are horrible!

I like the iPad, just not its form factor and have never been tempted into buying one. Galaxy Tab 7.7 looked interesting but was never widely available in the UK. A smaller iPad I would definately be interested in. Gonna be a lot of red faces if all Apple announce is a standard ipad with a redesigned home button.

Hey! Molly Wood! My mom totally dropped her phone in her cereal bowl and I told her to turn it off all the way, dry it with a towel, and put it in a bag of rice. I was so excited to have such a spontaneous torture test! Thank you Molly!

It's funny that people call iTunes difficult to use. Flashback: people said the same exact negative criticism about Sony's Sonicstage program when it ruled the roost, while saying iTunes was much easier to use in comparison. Now Sony offers drag and drop file transfer with their devices and Apple products mostly require iTunes for file transfers. How things have changed.

Do you think they might release a new version of maps for IOS today?

I agree with reader buzz. If they put better graphics in macbook 13, I will buy it without thinking twice. And I doubt they will stay with hd4000, because of the retina display. No point in retina then.