Why I think Microsoft will win the tablet wars, but lose the smartphone one.

[binary solo]

super6646 said:

binary solo said:
What's the difference between Surface and a touchscreen ultrabook? Not much really. In many ways a windows tablet is an extension of the laptop market. All the people I know with windows tablets essentially use them as laptops. So when you look at windows tablets this way it makes sense that windows should do well with tablets.

With phones it's differen. Phone is not an extension of a market that MS already dominates. Hence outside of supplying business, which doesn't care so much about apps, windows phone will struggle.

Well I could also disagree. The surface pro 3 could be an agreement point, but we have to look at the new surface 3. Its priced like a tablet (starting at 500$) and yes it is more powerful then most tablets but its similarly spec'd. Now yes it runs full windows, but I think it really works. Anyway it varies from person to person.

$500 is priced like a tablet? Hell I can get a notebook with better specs than a Surface 3 for $500. If you said Surface 3 was $250 then I might take you seriously that Surface is not an extension of the laptop. And it runs full Windows. So the only differentiation with the features that exist in laptops is detachable keyboard.