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Comment by danilocampos | Hacker News Reader

I wouldn't be so sure. Jobs was notorious for taking public, absolutist positions and later changing his mind.

(cf < 10 inch tablets, Intel chips, etc)

Jobs changed his minds on tablet sizes? I thought he went to his death thinking they nailed it with the original iPad size.

I was able to find this with a little Googling (no idea on the truthfulness of the article), but I could swear there was another article listing the iPad Mini as one of the last products he worked on:

http://www.slashgear.com/steve-jobs-secretly-very-receptive-...

You might be confusing the iPad Mini with the iPhone 5: http://www.channel4.com/news/apple-co-founder-steve-jobs-las...

Eddy Cue: "I believe there will be a seven-inch market and we should do one." "I expressed this to Steve several times since Thanksgiving and he seemed very receptive the last time."

That he wasn't able to, coz he passed away, but the point stands. Jobs is famous for things like that. I remember clearly when he said there is no way anyone could make a computer that is less than 1000 bucks(when the rumor is ripe with upcoming ipad) and 6 months later releases the ipad for 500.

That statement would have been truly outlandish considering non-Apple laptops' were going for 400-600$ fairly routinely by that point.

His "counterargument" probably would have been something like, "you call those %$$#^&'s computers!?"

sorry i forgot to mention that he said there is no way anyone can make a computer that is not shit for less than 1000 bucks.

That's a horrible example. Jobs didn't consider the iPad a computer but an an appliance.

That's not "political pressure", is it?

I don't think President Bush asked him to switch to Intel, no.

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