iPad Minis Worth $1.9 Million Stolen from New York Airport, FBI Makes Arrests

The iPad Mini may have not generated queues in front of Apple stores, but it did generate a passion big enough to make people steal it… in huge quantities. Just days ago we found out that $1.9 million worth of iPad Minis were stolen from the JFK airport in New York and the FBI announced today that they’ve made an arrest.

Airport worker Renel Rene Richardson supposedly assisted during the heist, serving as a lookout with two other accomplices. They loaded pallets of iPad Minis using forklifts and Richardson was arrested after other employees claimed he asked questions about the iPad Mini shipment and forklifts ahead of the robbery. The FBI is searching Long Island for the truck containing the stolen iPad Mini units. The problem here is that the iPads haven’t been registered with Find My iPad just yet, so they’re hard to track down.

The funny thing is that this morning dozens of new iPad Minis suddenly showed up for sale in Long Island. Expect further arrests to go down and the iPad Mini heist to get a popularity boost. Frankly speaking, thieves would have been better off stealing iPhone 5 units, since they’re pricier, more compact and… more wanted by the public.

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iPad Mini Wins Eye Tracking Study, Most Recognized and Wanted Device of the Bunch

A recent study done by the folks of EyeTrackShop involved the top 7 inch tablets and placed them in front of participants, tracking their eye movements. The aim here was to determine which one was the most popular model among them. The duelling devices were the iPad Mini, Nexus 7, Nook HD and Kindle Fire HD.

Test subjects had a glance at them and then at the company’s current advertising campaign, with the result being that the iPad Mini won with a 40% higher purchase intent than its rivals. This means that just by looking at the Apple 7.9 inch tablet, users became more interested in buying it than the rival products. It seems that Apple applying for the “rectangle with curved corners” is paying off, since its format has become recognizable by the masses.

The study was conducted on 600 users who allowed access to their webcams and were shown the tablets before being asked follow-up questions. About 25% of the respondents said that they intend to buy a tablet within a month. Heat mapping and gaze opacity were analyzed in the study. The Kindle Fire HD was second when it comes to recognition, getting 52% recognition, compared to the iPad Mini’s 73%. Most respondents said that the price is a very important aspect when shopping for a new product.

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