亚洲果迷排队购迷你iPad,苹果大不如前?_BEC初级作文

亚洲果迷排队购迷你iPad,苹果大不如前?

“它很轻，容易拿，我将用它来读书。它比原来的iPad更好，”李说。

There were queues of 100 or more outside Apple stores in Tokyo and Seoul when the device went on sale, but when the company's flagship Hong Kong store opened staff appeared to outnumber those waiting in line.

当该产品上市销售时东京和首尔的苹果商店有100或更多的人在排队，但当公司的旗舰店香港商店开门时员工似乎比那些排队的人还多。

The iPad mini marks Apple's first foray into the smaller-tablet segment, and the latest salvo in a global mobile-device war that has engulfed combatants from Internet search leader Google Inc to Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp.

迷你iPad标志着苹果首次进入了平板电脑市场，这在全球移动设备战争市场上的最新出击威胁到了来自互联网搜索领头羊谷歌、亚马逊公司和微软的竞争者。

Microsoft's 10-inch Surface tablet, powered by the just-launched Windows 8 software, went on sale in October, while Google and Amazon now dominate sales of smaller, 7-inch multimedia tablets.

微软的10英寸平板电脑由刚刚发布的Windows 8软件作支持，10月上市，而谷歌和亚马逊现在主导着7英寸平板多媒体电脑的市场。

Unveiled last week, the iPad mini has won mostly positive reviews, with criticism centering on a screen considered inferior to rivals' and a lofty price tag. The new tablet essentially replicates most of the features of its full-sized sibling, but in a smaller package.