Awesome sales for MS Surface, numbers are out!

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famousringo on 16 January 2013

dallas said:

man-bear-pig said:

dallas said:

Market share is all that I care about, because profitability slowly follows that.

No it doesn't. Google has 60% of the smartphone market and they've made fuck all profit

Yeah, but apple is losing marketshare and should lose some revenue as well. They've already lost a large amount of stock price, so if you think that revenue will be busting to astronomical highs then you're fooling yourself.

Google tablets on the other hand, push users into google search, its main cash cow. all they have to do is click on Chrome, and for most users they have google.com as their default page..... and bam! they get going. This isn't even charging google in the least so in terms of profits they should be a net positive, even though the results improved are technically in other parts of google

Here's the problem: An Android tablet is not a Google tablet.

Pretty much every Android device sold in China, for example, has the Google stripped out and replaced with Baidu and other equilavent services. Every Kindle replaces Google services with Amazon's. Even Microsoft has paid for the right for Bing to displace Google as the default search service on some Android devices.

Google has surrendered all control of their platform in the name of marketshare. The result is a platform which "wins" marketshare, but reaps almost none of the benefits that marketshare dominance is supposed to earn you. With past evidence suggesting that most of Google's mobile profits come from iOS users, there is no indication that profits will follow marketshare.

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Scoobes on 16 January 2013

Hmm... looks like Windows RT is going to be a bit of a bust. Samsung have just cancelled the release of their RT devices in the US:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-Windows-RT-Tablet-Microsoft,20437.html

Actually makes for some depressing reading. Like others, they're going for a "wait and see" approach.

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PlaystaionGamer on 16 January 2013

1 million? Is that really it? I have never seen so many adverts for something like I have the surface! I would expect with the holidays and the money there pumping into advertising about 8-10mil by now! Maybe other companies tablets running win8 or whatever people are calling this version of the tablet form will do good.

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timmah on 16 January 2013

famousringo said:

sales2099 said:

People are more excited for Surface Pro, so it should be getting better. And isn't surface only sold in MS stores?

Either way, a great first step.

Edit: Your usually anti MS.....yet refuse to comment on Sonys tablet situation :P. Veiled sarcasm I see.

I don't think the Surface Pro will change anything. It has all the problems of Windows tablets of the past ten years (size, weight, battery life, cost), except this one actually has a proper touch interface now. There's a very limited market of maybe a million people per year who want full Windows running on a powerful processor in a tablet format.

It's a niche which is perhaps worth holding onto and serving, but it's never going to set the world on fire.

I work at a company that provides IT support/consulting services to a lot of small to medium businesses. Every single one of them are chomping at the bit to get the Surface Pro. Many in the business world have been waiting for a productivity centric tablet, the Surface Pro is that and more.

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dallas on 17 January 2013

kowenicki said:
So basically a trolling sarcastic thread title.

Cool.

Anyhow, how many windows8 tablets were sold? Surface is but one.

We got some great discussion from this thread, you should have had a positive attitude instead of the trash talking that you always have to do, bc some people have been complaining.

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dallas said:

kowenicki said:
So basically a trolling sarcastic thread title.

Cool.

Anyhow, how many windows8 tablets were sold? Surface is but one.

We got some great discussion from this thread, you should have had a positive attitude instead of the trash talking that you always have to do, bc some people have been complaining.

I enjoyed this thread too.