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Soleron on 14 November 2012
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dallas said:
Soleron said:
dallas said:

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The market research analysts have uniformly said that msft will keep about five percent market share for smartphones but get around twenty percent for tablets.  

I'd be prepared to bet on the reverse.


Ok, and why is that?

Apple already has tablets completely locked down. When making software, developers only consider the iPad.

Phones are much more in flux because they're already porting to Android as well. The build quality and integration of the new HTCs and Lumias are superior in some ways to Android and iPhones, whereas with the Surface it's not better than anything that already exists.

Fundamentally I think people don't want to use Windows on a tablet, even with shiny Metro.

The analysts are thinking that because there are a lot of makers of RT/Pro tablets that it will succeed. Actually I think MS will universally undercut them all so only Surface is viable, and then I don't see actually 1 in 5 people outright choosing a Surface.