selnor said:
Slimebeast said:
Argh_College said:
kowenicki said:
Its going to be a success. The people that said this would be a huge flop couldn't have been more wrong. Imagine how well all the Windows 8 tablets combined are going to do in general this holidays and during 2013. |
Ballmer said OVER 400Milions Windows8/WP8 Phones will be sold in 1 year... So From now to October 2013.
Windows 8 is another Story since many people just upgrade their Software and dont buy New Pcs.
So Probably 650m W8 and > 400M Windows8/Wp8 devices
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lol u misunderstood. What is included in those 400 million? Obviously he included Win 8 operating systems for PCs, so it's going to be like 380 million software packs (Win 8 OS for PC) and perhaps 20 million hardware devices (Windows smartphones and Windows tablets).
A measly 20 million hardware devices powered by a Microsoft system (excluding PCs). At best.
Meanwhile Apple sells 150 million phones and tablets in a year and Android another 500 million.
Keep in mind that total worldwide yearly shipments of smartphones by all vendors is around 700 million and tablets I would think much less, perhaps 100 million.
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ROFL.
That measily number is already at 5 million beofre the launch as Surface RT is SOLD OUT.
So that leaves only 15 million by your count in 364 days across Surface RT/Pro and all its counterparts Nokia, Asus etc.
Also worth noting is that double the amount of companies are building Windows 8 devices than that that support Android.
I fail to see the logic.
Android and IOS will not sell nearly half as many devices from now on as Windows 8.
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5 million sold already? LOL! No.
How much do you think was in that first shipment? It's likely it's much less than a console launch, and a console launch usually has 1.5 million shipped during a whole Holiday season.
So the "sold out" is probably 100K units or so. And another 3-5 million units are about to be manufactured according to rumours in one quarter. It remains to be seen how many millions will stay unsold on shelves.
5 million already sold before launch. 
You're a comedian Selnor.
