It's been updated to match the iPad mini, released a year ago.
But with Apple dominating the tablet market so far, it has also grabbed the lion's share of profits by competing at the high end, even with its iPad mini released last year.
Apple has been very successful at this, killing the iPod mini, releasing an iPad that could compete with its computers, etc.
Salford musician Simon Archer plays bass on the Pixies' new EP, promised as the first in "a series of mini-releases".
After teasing fans in June with a new song, "Bagboy," the band issued the four-song "EP-1" early on Tuesday, the first in a series of mini-releases it plans to put out sporadically over the next 15 months.
The mini-release will help promote a five-disc home video set, which includes a version playable on 3-D televisions.
With these mini-releases it starts to become also more typical that companies also invest in automatic rollback of the previous versions, if something goes wrong with the release.
James' latest is a twisting techno trek through dark, ominous synths, a relentlessly upbeat and groovy beat, and a dash of something eerie, mystical or transcendental all hallmarks of a Minus release.
He is one of the most active Twitter users in baseball, often interacting with his followers rather than simply sending out mini press releases, and his tweets are goofy and fun.
Apple's iPad mini 3, released in October of 2014, had a color range less than two-thirds as large as that of televisions from fifty years ago.
His debut single One Time was followed by My World, a seven-track mini album released in November 2009, which went platinum in the US and, eventually, double platinum in the UK and his native Canada.
