@gesi1223 said:
@DoctorWelch said:
@KaosAngel said:
That shit going to flop.
No one is going to waste more money on a MS tablet than buy an iPad. Google tried it already and they still haven't made a dent.
Good luck with that, just like how Microsoft took out Apple and Google in the handset market!
You clearly don't understand the point of this tablet combined with Windows 8. It's not just a tablet, it's a legitimate laptop unlike all other tablets, that's the big difference. This combines the ultrabook and tablet market into one.
Maybe so, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will sell well. It has to appeal to the mass market. Especially the people who already have an iPad or even the ones who don't but just want a new Tablet for the novelty. Apple has already saturated the market, I don't expect the Windows 8 tablet to compete with iPads as well as people are hoping.
They have saturated the market with a product that no one can actually use for anything other than leisure. Take that and the fact that Apple's products and marketing strategy with apps purposefully try to kill off old products there is no reason why this would not sell if it is a better product. If they have "saturated the market" than even Apple would not be able to sell more iPads, but they do. You are also thinking way to small. This is not going straight at the iPad, it's combining two or more markets into one in order to create a whole new market that makes iPads and ultrabooks obsolete. The only question now is usability and execution. If they manage to make a product that feels great to use, it will essentially destroy the tablet and possibly even the low-mid end laptop. The big deal is that companies always play catch-up with Apple, but Microsoft is actually creating something completely new, and actually positioning something innovative and new rather than a mimic of what is already out there. For the last point though, this entire thing is going to appeal to every single person that uses any laptop or tablet other than people that use laptops over the $1000 range. If the price starts at $500 it kills of the low level laptop market, kills the tablet market, and kills the ultrabook market if they upper range gets to about $800 or so.
This is all just the facts of positioning in the market. The only real thing to debate now is the execution of this product. If the keyboard feels shitty, if it runs worse than an iPad, and if you can't use it like a laptop then it will fail. However, if they execute on everything they are going for there is no denying that this will be a great product that will probably go on to be extremely successful.
Again, the main point here is cutting into markets by creating a whole new market instead of playing catch-up.
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