One thing I am really curious about is the bezel size for the iPad mini. Mathias Duarte gave a huge exposition about carefully laying out the bezels for lots of comfortable holding angles with the Nexus 7 in his interview, but the iPad Mini has only a fraction of those bezels.

So one of the following is the case:

1. Mathias was BSing to make lemonaide from the lemons of the slightly odd looking screen form factor. The Nexus 7 could have been smaller or had a bigger screen. The iPad Mini is easy to hold.

2. Mathias was right, but only considering the weight of the Nexus 7. The reduced weight of the iPad Mini still makes it easy to hold.

3. Mathias was right, and the iPad Mini's design is more about photo ops than daily use, and users will tend to accidentally tap when they hold it.

I'm really curious here, because device design is something of a mysterious art and I have enjoyed watching the different schools of design play out.

UPDATE, "iPad mini intelligently recognizes whether your thumb is simply resting on the display or whether you’re intentionally interacting with it. It’s the kind of detail you’ll notice — by not noticing it."

So, software. Which means that it'll be fine for reading, but probably not fine for gaming where there is a lot of input sensitivity required. That may explain why the bezels on the top ends (for holding it in portrait) are more conventionally sized.