Bloomberg: a miniature version of the iPad will be released before the end of the year

Apple will release before the end of the year the compact version of the Tablet PC iPad, which will vary a lower price, Bloomberg reported, citing informed sources.

 

iPad leader in its segment, controlling about 60% of the global market for such devices. However, other manufacturers are trying to win the Apple side of this promising and highly profitable market. Among the latter represented gadgets - Microsoft Surface tablets and Google Nexus 7.

Developed by the device that Apple may announce as early as October of this year, will not be equipped with high-resolution screen, like the latest model iPad - the resolution is the same model iPad second generation, says Bloomberg.

According to analyst Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee & Leach, if Apple does provide such a device, "it would be the worst nightmare of competitors." Many manufacturers are trying to occupy a niche in the market of tablets, with the help of budget versions, making the competition Apple's price.

Recall, on the eve of the fact that Apple will release to the market a compact model iPad wrote the  News Agency of The Wall Street Journal. According to this publication, the device will be released in October of this year and will cost anywhere from $ 249 to $ 299. The tablet will receive a 7.85-inch screen made ​​of technology IGZO.

Bill Gates: Apple needs its counterpart tablet Microsoft Surface

Microsoft founder Bill Gates believes that the new Tablet Surface , presented his company in June, are quite unique products, despite the fact that formally they are not much different from most competing products. With the exception of desktop platform, and a physical keyboard included, Microsoft Surface is a regular Tablet PC with touch screen.

 

Nevertheless, in an interview on PBS, Gates said that the Surface - a new "wave" form factor. The gadget combines the advantages of a tablet and a traditional PC. According to the founder of the Redmond company, he had long nurtured the idea of ​​tablets, but Steve Jobs was able to get ahead. Now, Gates is convinced that Apple should release a device resembling Surface. Apparently, it is a Tablet PC-based operating system, Mac OS X.

 

The idea of ​​combining in one device, tablet PC and has repeatedly been criticized not only by Steve Jobs, Tim Cook and. In April, the acting head of Apple, made a sharp criticism of the devices, which are a hybrid of laptop and tablet, as well as the universal operating system for computers and mobile gadgets.

"You can force to connect anything, but the problem is that this will turn out - Cook responded to a question about the prospects of convergence of laptop and tablet in a single device. - You can even combine a toaster and a fridge, but the result will not be pleasant and useful to the user. "

Cook said "pills" suitable for people who are not burdened with "legacy PC", and Bill Gates believes the continuity of infrastructure perhaps the main advantage of the Surface. So Gates' predictions about the inevitability of new copy plates Microsoft by Apple is hardly realistic.