iPad mini sales are hitting the iPad’s market position, the NPD analytical company reports in its January study. This is bad or good for developers, the App2Top editorial team was looking into it.

In 2012, tablets overtook laptops in sales in the USA and Canada. In 2013, this trend will become global, according to NPD DisplaySearch. 

The cost of the Apple mini-tablet, sales of which will start in Russia tomorrow, has changed significantly over the past night. 

The retail chain of “apple products” re:Store announced the start of sales and the cost of the iPad mini.

Official sales of the iPad Mini in Russia will start in mid-January, sources close to one of the major distributors of Apple devices tell Izvestia.

Search giant Google unexpectedly decided to hold a presentation on the same day with Microsoft. 

Last night, Apple sent out invitations to Western media to an official event that will take place a week later, on October 23 in San Jose at 21:00 Moscow time. There is an opinion that it will present a miniature version of the iPad. 

According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft Corporation plans to sell from 3 to 5 million Surface tablets in the fourth quarter of this year.

Last week, the controversy over the alleged dates of the announcement of the iPad Mini did not subside. This week started with rumors about the cost of the device.

Piper Jaffray investment company has published the results of its own research on the preferences of more than 7.7 thousand American teenagers. According to its results, analysts found out that 40% of them have an iPhone (last year there were 34% of them, the year before that – 23%).

According to MacRumors, the iPad Mini may not be the only device introduced by Apple in October. According to rumors, the company additionally announces an updated version of the iPad 3.

Based on the statements of the American operator Verizon, many have already concluded that sales of the brand new iPhone 5 will begin on September 21. But the intrigue remains: when to wait for the iPad mini?