Hasta La Gadget!

All right, just more thing from Steve Jobs’s unexpected–and, frankly, pretty awesome–earnings call crashing from last night. After the executive was finished saying some mean things about Google and BlackBerry, he tore into the tablet market.

First on his list were the new crop of seven inch tablets that seem to be popping up all over the place. “One naturally thinks that a seven inch screen would offer 70 percent of the benefits of a 10 inch screen,” Jobs told the press. “Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. The screen measurements are diagonal, so that a seven inch screen is only 45 percent as large as iPad’s 10 inch screen. You heard me right-just 45 percent as large.”

Of course, Jobs wasn’t just attacking the tablets that have been announced thus far–he was putting the kibosh on all of those rumors of a seven inch “iPad Mini.”

Users of a seven inch tablet, he added, oddly, would have to “sand down their fingers” to use the thing. Yep, that’s right, sand down their fingers,

Once you increase the resolution of the display to make up some of the difference, it’s meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of their present size.