Originally Posted by
pseudoswede
The article states its price needs to be competitive with the iPad family. Wrong. It needs to be significantly cheaper for anyone to be swayed to buy one--and that's just for the people who have resisted taking a bite out of the fruit. IMO, it's going to be nearly impossible to see a significant defection of people who will give up their iPads for the MS Surface.
I agree. One reason this product is DOA is that MS is arrogant enough to believe they can charge as much for the Surface as Apple does for the iPad. But it isn't enough for an MS product to
be competitive with an Apple product; the MS product needs to
blow the Apple product out of the water in every way (including price), and MS simply can't pull that off.
Originally Posted by
ScottC
To me, this has success written all over it, because they'll be doing the opposite of what Apple is trying - Apple is taking the best of iOS to the desktop, and Microsoft is taking the best of the desktop to a tablet. And with >90% of the market using Windows, there WILL be people who don't want to screw around with multiple systems. With Windows 8 sharing preferences between machines, Surface has the potential to be something big.
Let me put it this way: Windows Surface will have about as much impact as Windows Phone. (How's WP doing, btw?)