I will always have a laptop for full-feature portable computing, so I’m not looking an ipad-sized tablet, and I certainly don’t want to bother with a device that has no camera and doesn’t make phone calls. And, in addition to other shortcomings such as lack of flash, I find the iphone screen too small to be an effective intermediate computing device, and with the ipad’s size you might as well bring your laptop/netbook. The Mini 5 is the perfect size for easy portability (it will easily fit in my jacket’s inside pocket), and with phone capability, it allows users replace a device instead of forcing them to add one.