Microsoft Takes Another Stab At Tablets, Unveils Surface 2, Surface 2 Pro 381
Dputiger writes "Microsoft has unveiled both the Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro, updating the former with a Tegra 4 processor and the latter with a new Haswell chip. Among the additional improvements are a more comfortable kickstand with two height settings, 1080p displays for both devices, USB 3.0 support, better battery life, and a higher resolution camera. Pricing for the 32GB Surface without a Touch or Type Cover is set at $449."
Why aim for shrinking Market share. (Score:5, Informative)
"This isn't an iPad 2" and "This isn't an iPad 2 pro".
The iPad Market share of tablets is shrinking (down to 30%), they actual sell less than last year. Android are now dominant in tablets.
Current share from IDC http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24253413 [idc.com]
Re: Why aim for shrinking Market share. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Microsoft seems not to understand. (Score:5, Informative)
People don't want Microsoft on their tablet.
I have a Surface Pro (NOT RT. Repeat after me NOT RT) tablet at work - and it works like a charm. It's a Core i5 running Metro + Win 8 pro. Runs full MS Office and has access to all network resources. At my desk it has its desktop extended to another monitor (try doing that with an iPad) with attached keyboard & mouse. Away from my desk it's got a detachable proper clicky keyboard and a nifty stylus.
If I'm "tableting" with it and I just want to check something or watch something on the train I tap a metro tile's app and pull it up
If I need to do 'real' work I go to the Windows desktop.
All my colleagues carry two devices (iPad + Note/ultrabook PC) - I carry one. Every time I pull it out at a meeting or at the airport people say "oooh... what's *that*?" The RT noise is distracting people from what is otherwise a very cool machine.
You couldn't pay me to lug a laptop around anymore.
Re: Why aim for shrinking Market share. (Score:3, Informative)
I set my android tablet to report that it was desktop chrome because I got tired of getting shitty webpages designed to be unusable on a cellphone that were completely unusable on a tablet.
Re:MS Tablet Strategy (Score:5, Informative)
Re: Why aim for shrinking Market share. (Score:2, Informative)
Yeah but it could also be that iPads are used more for web browsing, or the users pull up more web pages in the same amount of time on the web.
Re: Why aim for shrinking Market share. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Or alternatively (Score:5, Informative)
A good chunk of what you can do otherwise, ditto with Powershell... though there are a few interop things which are locked out IIRC (such as P/Invoking from PS).
I dunno... transferring files via sneaker-net between an external thumb drive, HD or memory card?
I'd respond to more of what you've said, but it would appear you are so hate filled that there is no point in trying much more to reason with you.
Re: Why aim for shrinking Market share. (Score:5, Informative)
I think what he's getting at is that particular website may just be more popular among ipad users.
Looking at user agent statistics really is a bad way of measuring device market share in general as it can't possibly tabulate a reliable sample of users. I guarantee you for example that bing.com would report far more windows phone users than android users, whereas google.com would probably report the opposite, and I don't think it really necessitates explaining why that is.
Re: Why aim for shrinking Market share. (Score:5, Informative)