| Soleron said: I definitely think MS consumer dominance is set to end within 5 years. Not in some spectacular bankrupting way but just that reliance on old applications will lessen, and Chrome OS and other possible competitors (iOS laptops? Samsung fork of some kind?) will become good enough so a customer can use them for everything they'd do in a day. Everyone today still owns an MS device but they don't feel attached to it like they do their phone. |
I disagree with your second paragraph. I think the point of the surface isn't to take the word by storm as Microsoft makes much more money by an Acer OEM Windows license than selling a Surface at this point. The point is to get them some experience with hardware much like Googles Chrome Pixel which is a the best terrible product ever made.
Also the functionality and speed aspect is quite debatable. Windows 8/RT offers a very smooth methro experience and much better multitasking than the tablet competition. As a web developer who works in online advertising I find that even Surface RT is much more usable than the iPad or any Android device out there. Especially after the recent XDA forums jailbreak developemnts and ability to enable flash on every site on the fly as well as recompile x86 apps and run them on the desktop (after jailbreak). I have x86 version of Fiddler running on desktop for web debugging on surface RT no problem and I can log in to Googles DFP ad server and google analytics and get the full features (not just the limited mobile version). Surface Pro would blow them away the competition for me in terms of functionality.
I do agree that they are too expensive, but that ties in to the first point of Microsoft not wanting to undercut OEMs (yet).
