Thank you all for your input. I waited till now to respond because I wanted to see everyone's replies. I see my wording of my op upset a few of you. let me clarify. I would like a 7 inch ipad
I find the size for my needs to be more useful the 10 inch for me is too big. it just becomes uncomfortable after a while of tring to hold it. and you look kinda silly walking around or tring to drive with a 12 inch block as a nav tool. LOL.
The phones are too small I have larger fingers and the tiny 3 and 4 inch screens just don't cut it typing is heck on them.
Several of you pointed to the playbook as an example of why 7 inch tabs fail..... NO it is failing because of its software not its size the software sucks unless your a blackberry fan.
The 7 inch samsung has done well again because of its software.
I also said in my op that apple was losing ground. let me clarify my statement.
as an individual yes no other tab can touch the sales numbers of the ipad. but as a whole android has all ready taken over the top spot in the phone os market and is not to far from being top dog in the tab market as well.
Reason I believe is variety.
Dont get me wrong I am not attacking apple products I own them too.
Just I feel some of apples "choices" they give us are a bit motivated by their pockets instead of their wanting to please us.
Main gripe no sd card slot. They force us to pay hundreds more for a few bucks worth of ram. giving those of us who want more room no choice but to buy over priced higher capacity ipads. where android gives thier customers sd card slots so they can have the same and even more memory for a few bucks compared to hundreds.
anyway like I said at first I would just like a 7 inch ipad with an sdcard slot and usb. and I just think that once it would get out it would sell just fine.
again thank you all for your input to my first post on the forums.