When Apple released iPad Mini people talked with their wallet and this was a right size along the regular iPad?

Is there even a question here?

Nobody said "10 was the one and perfect size until Apple added 7". Just that Apple releasing a 10" only, for the first versions of the iPad, was a wild success.

Apple had decided to release a 10, and then they decided to add a 7 to that line. Both were mass bought. So clearly both were good market decisions.

Other vendors had a 7 even before -- their sales were 1/10 the iPad 10 available at the time or less.

>Really, do you have top put a nonsensical analogy to try to defend the indefensible?

The "indefensible" being a company offering a specific feature set of their choice and not every possible feature desired by some users or offered by some competitor?

If the resulting products sell well, then surely, they didn't make a mistake in ommiting stuff.

I don't know how you can defend the contrary. Based on some unalienable right to get what you like in a specific product from a specific brand?