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Apple has unveiled its latest product that seeks to carve out a niche2 in a relatively3 new area - the mini tablet.

At the historic California Theater in San Jose, Apple VP of worldwide marketing4, Phil Schiller, unveiled the new tablet.

iPad Mini has a 7.9 inch screen. That’s 0.9 inches bigger than its chief rival, Google’s Nexus5 7, which has been grabbing a bigger share of the tablet market.

Apple claims the area of the screen is 67% larger than the Nexus 7, while surfing the web in landscape mode.

Apple also touts6 the screen ratio being the same as the iPad 2, so developer’s apps work exactly the same - another shot at Android which is more fragmented.

The iPad mini is the width of a pencil and the weight of a paper pad. But perhaps the biggest shock is the price.

iPad mini’s base model, with 16 gigabytes, comes in at 329-dollars-far pricier than the 199 dollars for the Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle7 Fire.

A big surprise was the arrival of the fourth generation of the "regular sized" iPad.

Lighter8 and faster with a new A6-X chip, this new iPad comes only about 7 months since the last iPad was launched.

CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple had sold 100 million iPad sales in just 2 years and that 91-percent of all web traffic for tablets is through the iPad.

Apple also refreshed its entire line of Mac Book Pro1 laptops and introduced a new iMac all-one-desktop that’s 80perecent thinner than the previous version.

The late founder9 Steve Jobs had famously said that seven-inch tablets were too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad.

The thinking here has obviously changed since his passing.


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1 pro tk3zvX     
n.赞成，赞成的意见，赞成者
参考例句：
  • The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
  • Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军？
2 niche XGjxH     
n.壁龛；合适的职务(环境、位置等)
参考例句：
  • Madeleine placed it carefully in the rocky niche. 玛德琳小心翼翼地把它放在岩石壁龛里。
  • The really talented among women would always make their own niche.妇女中真正有才能的人总是各得其所。
3 relatively bkqzS3     
adv.比较...地，相对地
参考例句：
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
4 marketing Boez7e     
n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西
参考例句：
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
5 nexus vvHyq     
n.联系；关系
参考例句：
  • Shared ambition is the vital nexus between them.共同的志向是把他们联结在一起的重要纽带。
  • Either way,the nexus between the consumer and consumer prices is important.无论那个方面，消费者与消费价格之间的关系是至关重要的。
6 touts e7b84e5a035797f4e743a3bcd192b380     
n.招徕( tout的名词复数 )；（音乐会、体育比赛等的）卖高价票的人；侦查者；探听赛马的情报v.兜售( tout的第三人称单数 )；招揽；侦查；探听赛马情报
参考例句：
  • Many vouchers are returned for cash, allowing touts and middle men to make a healthy margin. 许多月饼券都被兑换成现金，这让券贩子和中间商赚取了不蜚的利润。 来自互联网
  • Spotting prey, the customary crowd of hustlers and touts swarmed around, jostling for my business. 照例有大群的拉客黄牛在寻觅猎物，他们争相过来抢我的生意。 来自互联网
7 kindle n2Gxu     
v.点燃，着火
参考例句：
  • This wood is too wet to kindle.这木柴太湿点不着。
  • A small spark was enough to kindle Lily's imagination.一星光花足以点燃莉丽的全部想象力。
8 lighter 5pPzPR     
n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级
参考例句：
  • The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
  • The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
9 Founder wigxF     
n.创始者，缔造者
参考例句：
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

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