Customer Yu Liu sets up his new &#39;iPad mini&#39; on the morning of the tablet&#39;s launch in the Apple Store in Covent Garden on November 2, 2012 in London, England. Customers have queued outside Apple Store branches around the world to be some of the first people to purchase the new smaller iPad tablet computer; the screen on which measures 7.9 inches diagonally compared to 9.7 inches for a regular iPad.