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also silver. the cool part is november 1st it will be available at $500. also, the other announcement was the ipad mini is going to be faster. it comes with that retina display everybody s been asking about. also comes in white, gray, and black. starts at $399. shipping later in november. exciting for consumers because they re keeping the older ipad mini on the market for only $300. apple has lots of stats when they hit the stage with these kind of presentations. they ve sold 170 million ipads to date. they have 81% of the consumer market share. this is huge news. it s huge news, but the competition is trying to stay in there. what s this other tablet? there are other brands competing with this, right? yes, try they will. let s call it tech tablet tuesday. today alone microsoft unveiled their surface pro and surface 2. also, nokia has entered into the tablet space. the tablet world is locked up by apple, but i think there s a chance in the corporate world.
injury. a big day for tablet lovers. cnbc s mandy drury is here with what s moving your money on this day. all right, so what do we expect? how many tablets? what are they. reporter: it s all very exciting for those people who like apple products. we ve got new versions of the full-sized ipad and the ipad mini. of course just in time for the year-end holiday shopping season. and the ipad 5 is expected to be thinner and lighter. the ipad mini 2 is likely to include a high resolution retina display, possibly with a fingerprint sensor, and the color scheme of both those ipads is expected to match the iphone 5s. we had the space gray, champagne gold and also the silver. we may also get a new macbook pro. but here s the thing. we re talking evolutionary and not revolutionary. in other words, basically an upgrade similar to the iphone 5s. but as for what s happening in the tablet space, apple
profit margin. i have a lot of stiffer competition out there right now. microsoft launching the service today. i ve always seems to upstage the rivals with their own announcements. quickly come out with a note this week that it s resonating through the market in that they re expecting android, the google operative system to expand nearly half of the market share in the tablet space while the apple market system rose marginally in the next year. it ll be a bigger part of the market, but again it is bad news for the bottom line because they are not playing in that arena with the lower prices to go into it. watching very carefully announcement happens. jenna: hopefully means something good for the consumer. good to see you, robert, thank
they can draw arrows on your screen to show you what to do. cnbc s mandy drury is here with what s moving your money. that actually looks pretty cool. what else can you tell us about the new kindle? there s nothing that i can tell you that is as cool as that. that s awesome, that mayday feature. the new kindle is significantly faster and apparently lighter than the previous generation so there s the 7 inch and 8.9 inch versions. they re much sharper and colorful displays and more pixels per inch than even the latest ipad. amazon has even cut the price on what will be its entry level 7-inch tablet to $139 from a $199 version. that makes the tablet just $20 more than amazon s latest dedicated e-reader, kindle paper wide. it is this price cut that amazon is counting on to help to compete better in the tablet space. just to give you some facts and figures here on where they sit.