Rumors swirl of smaller iPad, which Jobs detested
April 19, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
There’s a constantly spinning mill of rumors about Apple products, most of which turn out to be untrue. What’s unusual this week is that talk has revived of a smaller iPad model, an idea company founder Steve Jobs derided publicly a year before he died. Continue Reading
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