disolitude said:
Slimebeast said:
selnor said:
Slimebeast said:
selnor said:
Slimebeast said:
selnor said:
I think Surface Pro will have someting to say about that. Basically the only tablet which can fully function with any business.
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A few million Pro tablets might sell to businesses next year but that's still not enough to become relevant or earn more than a measly 5% when ipad and Android commands 45% respectively.
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We will see in a years time. Apple and Android will not have that marketshare next year guaranteed. Hell like I said already Microsoft have more partners than Google for their OS on Tablets.
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It doesn't mean anything that other vendors are making Surface powered tablets. Just look at Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8. The same could be argued there, all the big guys made (and are still making) Windows Phones. And yet it is dead.
Think of it this way. MS is launching two tablets, the RT and the Pro. They have invested heavily in both, in marketing and otherwise.
And we already know the RT has failed and failed big time. It's the new Zune. No one wants it. So why on earth do you think that the delayed one of the two devices will somehow magically become a success?`When the market is heading towads $300 and $400 tablets you believe the $800 tablet will have any chance?
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What basis has it failed?
Seriously. It is sold out before launch. Now its sold out for its next batch. Where does that mean failed????
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Admit that even you feel it in your spine that RT will fail bigtime.
Have you asked yourself why the Surface only was released to official Microsoft stores and online? How pathetic is that! Have you ever seen a Microsoft store? I would bet you haven't, since there are only 31 Microsoft Stores in the whole world.
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With this statement I am pretty sure you're not really grasping the big picture here...
The reason why Surface has only been released to the Microsoft store and is smaller numbers is because microsoft does not want Surface to sell crazy numbers. You see, Acer, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, HP, LG, Sony, Toshiba and anyone else that sells a windows 7, windows 8 laptop pays microsoft 60 dollars for each Windows license they purchase. On top of that Office makes a killing for Microsoft as well.
With the Surface, Microsoft is giving Office away and is probably selling it for less profit than they would get for a regular, $399 Acer laptop. Not to mention that they have to keep their partners happy and not cut in to their tiny profit margins by stealing their lunch with their own tablet which makes them less money then an OEM sold device.
Your doom and gloom is totally unjustified here. Face it, Surface did exactly what they wanted it to do as is already a success. Its goal was to create Windows 8 awareness and a buzz...and here we are talking about it.
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Oh yes, buzz it did create, but Im not certain that the kind MS wanted it to.
And your logic, about MS wanting to let breathing space for manufacturers... are you serious? Do you really believe that these products should even be able to canibalize eachother? From where Im standing they are offered to two tottally separate user groups, and lets face it, from the early buzz W8 will not be the next XP or 7, and the tablet market is lost. We dont even need a to wait a year to see how fast the popularity of W8 based tablets will fall, we will only have to wait untill January, when all of us will see that the cheaper Android tablets and the 2NEW IPAD DEVICES will utterly humiliate MS.
Zune yet again, and the only successfull hardware made by MS is the glitch, that is the 360.
