Third, the hardware category.

第三种，硬件类。

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At this rate, the iPad is poised to become the fourth largest consumer electronics category, passing up gaming hardware and the cellphone.

按照这一速度，iPad正在超过游戏机和手机，将随时成为全球第四大类家用电子产品。

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For example, hardware developers are a category of (internal) program stakeholders concerned with the allocation of functionality and distribution of hardware within the system.

例如，硬件开发人员是一类(内部的)关心系统内硬件的功能和分布的分配的程序涉众。

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And while history has shown us what competition will do to margins in an increasingly commoditized hardware category, this is a new type of cycle where margins have held up for Apple despite competition.

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One bright spot should have been sales of the iPod digital music player, which Apple breaks out in the "peripherals and other hardware" category.

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While unit sales of most of Apple's computer lines were down in the fourth quarter of 2002, sales in its "peripheral and other hardware" category, into which the iPod falls, grew by more than 50% versus the year-ago quarter.

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