| selnor said: Android and IOS will not sell nearly half as many devices from now on as Windows 8. |
That prediction seems so absurd that at first I thought you were either joking or insane.
But then I realized you probably just try to trick people by comparing apples and oranges and you're not talking about tablets alone, but the whole range of Windows 8 products.
Since virtually all x86-compatible devices (PCs, Notebooks, Ultrabooks, Subnotebooks, Netbooks, and soon: tablets) ship with the latest Microsoft operating systems, which now happens to be Windows 8, people will of course buy lots of "Windows 8 devices", simply because for these products there are no alternatives whatsoever.
Wherever Windows 8 has competitors (Smartphones and ARM-powered tablets), Windows 8 marketshare will stay low.
I believe that the x86-compatible tablets will sell incredible though. Not because of Windows 8, but because I believe lots of people are extremely interested in the new form factor it promotes (devices that can kind of work as both tablets and notebooks). Similar to the netbook hype.
