TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

John Gruber:

I prefer the Mini over the full-size iPad in every single regard other than display resolution, and though I (and many of you) obsess over display resolution, it’s not an issue in the mass market.

If Gruber is representative of “power” users for the iPad, and he prefers the Mini in every way except for the lack of a retina screen, imagine what regular people will think. It’s a good bet that the iPad Mini becomes the most-bought and most-used iPad. That’s interesting.

It’s especially interesting because while the iPad Mini runs regular iPad applications without issue, Gruber says that typing on it in landscape isn’t nearly as easy as on the regular iPad, as you’d expect. That, combined with less screen space, means it won’t be quite as good a device for writing. Doing things like drawing could end up being less useful, too.

I could be wrong, of course; I’ll know more when mine arrives on Friday. But it’s certain that the iPad Mini being the dominant iPad used will change it as we know it. In many ways, that’s a good thing. The Mini is smaller and easier to hold, so people are probably going to use it more and use it in different circumstances. That’s a good thing for the platform.