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Yes, but they run iPhone apps. Jobs' point was that you wouldn't want to run iPad apps on a 7" screen - if you tried to fit in the extra information you can show on an iPad into a smaller space that would make the touch targets too small.

So now the proposition is that actually you can make an iPad layout fit in a ~8" screen because the iPad touch targets are a bit bigger than an iPhone anyway, and so you can shrink them a bit (to exactly iPhone size, it turns out) and they will work okay. We'll see.

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