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Cub on 13 January 2013

I am waiting to see what Ive is cooking, I hope he brings apple back to the center of the cool yard again!

How is Windows RT doing by the way? I read days ago Samsung cancelled their plans to release windows RT tablets due to modest demand recently.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 13 January 2013
sethnintendo said:

Good luck convincing parents to buy an overpriced tablet for their kid/teen.


They are, especially in America.



disolitude on 13 January 2013
Cub said:

I am waiting to see what Ive is cooking, I hope he brings apple back to the center of the cool yard again!

How is Windows RT doing by the way? I read days ago Samsung cancelled their plans to release windows RT tablets due to modest demand recently.


In that case you heard a very small part of why Samsung cancelled the tablet.

They can'celled the RT tablet in USA only (I can get it in Canada and most likely europe will get it) because:

"There wasn't really a very clear positioning of what Windows RT meant in the marketplace, what it stood for relative to Windows 8, that was being done in an effective manner to the consumer. When we did some tests and studies on how we could go to market with a Windows RT device, we determined there was a lot of heavy lifting we still needed to do to educate the customer on what Windows RT was. And that heavy lifting was going to require pretty heavy investment. When we added those two things up, the investments necessary to educate the consumer on the difference between RT and Windows 8, plus the modest feedback that we got regarding how successful could this be at retail from our retail partners, we decided maybe we ought to wait. "

After playing with both the Surface and Ativ tablet (X86 Atom one), there is no way anyone in the right mind will buy the Ativ. It's build quality is downright appalling...



Cub on 13 January 2013
disolitude said:
Cub said:

I am waiting to see what Ive is cooking, I hope he brings apple back to the center of the cool yard again!

How is Windows RT doing by the way? I read days ago Samsung cancelled their plans to release windows RT tablets due to modest demand recently.


In that case you heard a very small part of why Samsung cancelled the tablet.

They can'celled the RT tablet in USA only (I can get it in Canada and most likely europe will get it) because:

"There wasn't really a very clear positioning of what Windows RT meant in the marketplace, what it stood for relative to Windows 8, that was being done in an effective manner to the consumer. When we did some tests and studies on how we could go to market with a Windows RT device, we determined there was a lot of heavy lifting we still needed to do to educate the customer on what Windows RT was. And that heavy lifting was going to require pretty heavy investment. When we added those two things up, the investments necessary to educate the consumer on the difference between RT and Windows 8, plus the modest feedback that we got regarding how successful could this be at retail from our retail partners, we decided maybe we ought to wait. "


I see, so this is more of a delay mor than anything.



Ckmlb1 on 13 January 2013
sethnintendo said:

Good luck convincing parents to buy an overpriced tablet for their kid/teen.


I know someone that passed down their Ipad to their one year old, not making it up.



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disolitude on 13 January 2013
Cub said:
disolitude said:
Cub said:

I am waiting to see what Ive is cooking, I hope he brings apple back to the center of the cool yard again!

How is Windows RT doing by the way? I read days ago Samsung cancelled their plans to release windows RT tablets due to modest demand recently.


In that case you heard a very small part of why Samsung cancelled the tablet.

They can'celled the RT tablet in USA only (I can get it in Canada and most likely europe will get it) because:

"There wasn't really a very clear positioning of what Windows RT meant in the marketplace, what it stood for relative to Windows 8, that was being done in an effective manner to the consumer. When we did some tests and studies on how we could go to market with a Windows RT device, we determined there was a lot of heavy lifting we still needed to do to educate the customer on what Windows RT was. And that heavy lifting was going to require pretty heavy investment. When we added those two things up, the investments necessary to educate the consumer on the difference between RT and Windows 8, plus the modest feedback that we got regarding how successful could this be at retail from our retail partners, we decided maybe we ought to wait. "


I see, so this is more of a delay mor than anything.

It's basically Samsing saying:

"You sell Surface in USA for 499 and we can't sell the Windows RT tablet for 499 because we already sell the X86 one for that much. Plus your surface is much better than out RT tablet and no one would buy ours."

This is happening in USA only solely because of Surface.



famousringo on 13 January 2013

Buzz sounds like an ad agency, not a market research group. Why the hell would teens be excited about a product whose main selling point is Office?

You know who is a market research group? Nielsen.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/u-s-kids-continue-to-look-forward-to-iholiday/

Interest among 13+:

iPad - 21%
Surface - 3%

Among children 6-12:
iPad - 48%
Surface - 6%



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NintendoPie on 13 January 2013

Who are they kidding? Every single one of my friends owns an iPhone and iPod/iPad/MacBook.
Either my school is "uncool" or this article is not true. I'm going for the latter.



LemonSlice on 13 January 2013
famousringo said:
Buzz sounds like an ad agency, not a market research group. Why the hell would teens be excited about a product whose main selling point is Office?

You know who is a market research group? Nielsen.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/u-s-kids-continue-to-look-forward-to-iholiday/

Interest among 13+:

iPad - 21%
Surface - 3%

Among children 6-12:
iPad - 48%
Surface - 6%

WORD! That article is complete nonsense.



Marks on 13 January 2013

Not from what I'm seeing...but I would love that to be true. I've never been an Apple supporter aside from the iPod/iPod Touch.

I'm a Samsung guy for phones and TV's so it's at least good to see them in the same sentence as Apple.