According to the hit or miss Taiwanese supply chain source Digitimes, Microsoft may be preparing to pull the plug on its Surface tablet line.
The sources say sales of the high-end Surface Pro 3 are not as high as the company would like as Microsoft has a hard time convincing consumers that they can replace their laptop with the tablet.
If accurate, the site says Surface Pro 3 sales ... [ read the full article ]
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If Microsoft stops making Surface Pro, it will be too bad now that Intel is finally producing chips that can meet the performance and power requirements of a tablet. Had Intel produced viable x86 chips sooner or had Microsoft bit the bullet a lot earlier in creating a full ARM version of their software, they might have actually be able to survive in the tablet market.
Originally posted by mscritsm: If Microsoft stops making Surface Pro, it will be too bad now that Intel is finally producing chips that can meet the performance and power requirements of a tablet. Had Intel produced viable x86 chips sooner or had Microsoft bit the bullet a lot earlier in creating a full ARM version of their software, they might have actually be able to survive in the tablet market.
It's a shame. IMO they are higher priced, but MS is finally positioning the Surface against their real counterpart (Macbook) and not tablets (iPad) as it's more of a hybrid laptop/tablet and a darn good one in the latest iterations. If only it were priced more competitively with traditional tablets, I'd think more people may bite.
Originally posted by SProdigy: It's a shame. IMO they are higher priced, but MS is finally positioning the Surface against their real counterpart (Macbook) and not tablets (iPad) as it's more of a hybrid laptop/tablet and a darn good one in the latest iterations. If only it were priced more competitively with traditional tablets, I'd think more people may bite.
Originally posted by SProdigy: It's a shame. IMO they are higher priced, but MS is finally positioning the Surface against their real counterpart (Macbook) and not tablets (iPad) as it's more of a hybrid laptop/tablet and a darn good one in the latest iterations. If only it were priced more competitively with traditional tablets, I'd think more people may bite.
Next gen maybe?
Perhaps. I think Windows 8 being a dog doesn't do the Surface any favors. Windows 9 might help put it in a better position too IMO.
