via John Gruber. Dan Frommer:

My take after spend­ing a bunch of the week­end with the iPad mini: This is the real iPad. With the excep­tion of screen sharp­ness, every­thing about it is bet­ter than the big­ger, “clas­sic” iPad — and screen sharp­ness won’t be a deal breaker for the vast major­ity of people.

I thought Apple was focus­ing its mar­ket­ing efforts on screen sharp­ness: the new 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with Retina dis­play, the 15.4-inch ver­sion, the iPad (3) and the iPad (4), the iPhone 4/4S and 5, and the iPod touch (4th and 5th gen­er­a­tions). So with the excep­tion of what I think is Apple’s most impor­tant focus the iPad mini is the real iPad? Absurd.

By the way the dis­play falls short of sharp­ness, of course, but in a few other areas as well. Check out Raymond Soneira’s “iPad mini Display Technology Shoot-Out” that com­pares it to the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and the Google Nexus 7. Spoiler alert: The iPad mini doesn’t come out ahead.