superchunk said:
NiKKoM said:
hmmm I looked some stuff up http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130619PD222.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft's Windows RT operating system may fall to the same fate as Hewlett-Packard's (HP) webOS as most brand vendors have already stopped developing related products, leaving Microsoft's second-generation Surface RT, the only Windows RT-based device in the next-generation tablet competition, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
Microsoft is also having trouble gaining growth in the smartphone industry, the company currently only has less than 1% and 3% shares in tablet and smartphone markets, respectively, the sources said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That's bad if there are no new RT devices... and the second part is just sad.. there should be room for a third OS..
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Interesting info. But I figured it would die off. I personally don't see why they were diverging their OS like that anyways.
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Windows RT tablets are getting 95% of the apps that Windows 8 tablets and desktops are getting. They could not release a new tablet for 2 years and then come out and it will have 100,000 of apps. When making a windows 8 app, you literally check a checkbox in the Microsoft publishing API and it will publish the app on Win RT (if possible)
Essentially what I am trying to say is that they don't need to introduce new hardware to keep the development for WinRT going. It piggybacks off Win8.
there are talks of new Surface RT coming out with Qualcom chipset, Lenovo is making them, Asus is making them, Dell, HP make em...Acer and Samsung are on the fence.
I don't see this dying any time soon.