Actually, the surface has quite some potential - the digital signage segment is expected to experience serious growth and many manufacturers are shifting their know-how and resources from home tv's to digital signage. All these apps MS is demoing the surface with, the phone-shop interface, the restaurant aplications, are all potential digital signage products.
Obviously MS wants surface to eventually get into people's homes but in the meanwhile and specially once it's down to a more pallatable price (around 3 thousands) it should be a good contender on the digital signage market, specially if that thing can be mounted verticallly.








