And Apple smartly configured the iPad mini so regular iPad apps work without modification.
Placing a picture of the Google Nexus 7 alongside the iPad mini, he went through their specifications - the iPad's screen size was not so mini, 30% bigger than the Nexus, the overall experience on one was "great", on the other "not so great".
The 12 minutes or so mini-concert proved the Madonna remains an original and that she can outperformed many of the singers working today, even those half her age.
Tracking technologies have also lead retailers to start using their stores as mini-warehouses so that merchandise can be shuttled quickly from one store to another in a city.
This mini-feed is so far the clearest example of using the social graph in a concrete way.
There will also be a mini fire station built so the brigade can provide activities for children and young people.
Sales in the so-called mini segment jumped by more than a third, while those in the supermini category rose 18%.
If you're used to the scroll wheel on the iPod and iPod mini you might not be so hot on it.
Spain for example gave birth to the first modern ghost towns, whole mini-cities that were so under-populated their were incapable of supporting an infrastructure, created in part because its construction industry has been subsidised by European money for the past twenty five years.
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So take extra care to teach your mini-Mia Hamm that she doesn't have to be so hard on herself when things don't go her way.
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This desktop PC also comes with an optional compact wireless multimedia remote with built-in mini backlit keyboard and mouse, so users can control the Q190 from the comfort of their couch.
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None of the Mini officials on hand would go so far as to affirm the basic technology package being planned for the next iteration of its vehicles, but there was one point we could certainly agree on: it no longer has to rely solely on itself.
One of the other players turned up later as Dr Evil, too, so I became known as Mini Me.
Finally they are tied into the Zagat database so you can see ratings and mini-reviews for each restaurant.
By all early reports so far, the iPad mini is better than either of those two existing devices.
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So, if we examine the mini bull that began in 2009, we had our first giant leg from March 2009 to the summer of 2010.
The Bundesbank is not so worried about whether there is a mini-overshoot of that 3% for this year.
There is the tattooed gentleman who has a truck so high that I wonder how many Mini Cooper drivers he scares on a daily basis.
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So, when Derek first got the Mini Cooper, he kept it in the garage and insured it only on the days when he really wanted to use it, rather than paying regular monthly car insurance and using the car every time he needed to run an errand.
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So it was customers waiting for the iPad mini and drawing down the third generation.
Fling mini's unique spiral design creates actual physical resistance so gamers are assured of greater directional control.
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So, I hope you enjoy your Jay mini figure with all his weapons.
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As for mobile devices, PlayCast runs on any Android phone or tablet running version 4.0 or higher, so big-screen gaming is only a mini or micro-HDMI or MHL connection away.
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Among the offerings are a bid to park a Mini in a space simply not mini enough for it, a man using a space so small that he has to turn his wheel a dozen times and jolts the neighbouring cars with every movement, and a car reversing heavily into the one behind it - repeatedly.
So I do buy the argument that the iPad Mini creates a new category, distinct from 7-inch Android tablets and 10-inch iPads.
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And expect rich media and video to replace static banners so that users can view trailers or play a mini-game before they commit to a download.
Most Mini E users recharged their cars at home, and some did so only two or three times a week rather than every night.
So, what would make you interested enough in an iPad mini to buy one on launch day?
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