苹果公司的竞争对手，例如惠普、戴尔等公司，比以往提前一周开始了圣诞假期降价促销活动，某些商品的价格降幅高达50%。
Apple rivals like H-P and Dell offered discounts weeks earlier than usual this holiday season, dropping some prices by as much as 50%.
这是首次苹果公司的竞争对手采用高规格手机对抗苹果公司10月4日在卡布提诺市举行的新闻发布会“畅谈苹果”中即将推出的新产品。
This is the first year when Apple's rivals may well have higher-specced phones than what comes out of Cupertino in the Let's Talk iPhone event on October 4.
但是，这并没有阻止苹果公司一直以来的竞争对手——微软公司——对平板电脑入侵其统治多年的商业计算领域感到焦虑。
But that hasn't stopped Apple's perennial rival, Microsoft, from fretting over the tablet's intrusion into the world of business computing, which it has dominated.
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