Steve Jobs would never have allowed this: Apple launches a controversial gadget

Apple, highly appreciated for iPhone and iPad, is preparing to attack a new type of consumers.

Apple will launch in October a new tablet smaller than iPad. The gadget will be called iPad Mini and will have 8 GB, said a analyst from Pacific Crest.

Future Apple tablet will be 7.85 inches and it will be sold for $ 299. It should compete with Nexus 7 made ​​by Google in collaboration with Asus.

 Analyst says Apple will block sales of iPad 2 to make room for new tablet and that, in the first quarter of next year, will sell 10 million units of the new model.

Rumors about a smaller iPad occurred ever since the Tim Cook took over Apple.