guests invited to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, saw a whole new range of Apple products. Premiered in both hardware and software. Conference with the Cupertino giant, however, is not enthused investors, securities Apple lost on Wall Street nearly 0.3 percent. Earlier new gadgets revealed Finland’s Nokia , which is presented to the world in Dubai phablety with a 6-inch screen and the first tablet.
light and thin iPad
However
go back to California and star of the evening, as Apple fans have been waiting for the new iPad. The company needed a novelty in this segment, so as not to give golf rivals. And what is new? To start with a little surprise – the new iPad is not iPad 5, but the iPad Air. Why this and not another name? Apple threw numbers – the new tablet is about 20 percent. thinner and about 28 per cent. lighter than its predecessor. The battery has to withstand 10 hours of use. The word “Air” in their name are also light and thin laptop from Apple.
See the presentation of the new iPad
most important information: Air iPad will go on sale on the 1st of November and the list of countries displayed during a presentation by Apple’s Poland. Version 16GB Wi-Fi will cost $ 499.
This is not the end “tabletowych news”. Apple has also shown an iPad Mini with Retina display and announced that the offer will still be the iPad 2 costs $ 399. So far, offered the iPad mini will cost $ 299 and the price of a new start from $ 399.
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Tim Cook also announced that the company has sold about 170 million units of its tablet. According to Apple’s still more than 80 percent. used worldwide tablets are their products, although, as noted Bloomberg in his report “live” , the company did not disclose the source of the presentation of this information.
not only tablets
At the beginning of the conference the company unveiled a new version of OS X Mavericks. Interestingly, the system can be downloaded for free. Later on the screen showing the new MacBook Pro, lighter than its predecessor and equipped with efficient battery. Another novelty is the long-awaited Mac Pro – black tube which Apple announced a few months ago, will cost from 2999 USD.
Competition grows
Customers
probably wait for the new tablets with the logo gnawed apples. As noted service 24/7 Wall St. in the last quarter of iPad sales fell by 27 per cent. to $ 6.3 billion compared with the same period last year. Apple sends a new model on the market before the holiday shopping season, so the results of the next quarter may be better.
market analysts see any reason falls well as increasing competition, particularly from the Korean Samsung, which strongly affects the position of Apple. Portal magazine “Fortune” has published a series of graphs showing how, over the next quarters of declining sales Apple, and improved the performance of other producers.
largest players in the tablet market – Apple’s declining share
not bring Apple Tablet, although the biggest gains, because their main source of constant is the iPhone, but as we reported recently, iPad has a lot of meaning in the case of a listed company’s condition. Investors are likely to pay close attention to Tuesday’s conference.