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Authored by: dio gratia on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 06:04 PM EDT |
The distinction appears to be that while you buy Apple products for what they
can do and Apple has more retail stores, Best Buy displays and the like,
Microsoft is expecting you to buy because of who sells it.
I keep expecting to hear an angry shout of "We are Kingons!" from
Redmond.
On the other hand if this were not an elaborate vaporware scheme you'd expect
Microsoft to start opening stores like mad. ("We are Ferengi!").
There is no indication today that Microsoft has the courage of conviction,
allowing the buyer to beware instead.
While the products aren't ready and aren't being offered for sale you'd expect
someone would have detected Microsoft building up retail channels.
You could alternatively contemplate the limiting factors in production and
wonder what sort of volumes Microsoft could field, or whether this is vaporware
to a whole new level.
Notice the lack of leaks as to who manufactured the Surface tablets? Vapor
deposited magnesium is used to increase surface hardening and can likely be done
on an industrial scale, yet someone must be making the actual cases prior.
There aren't a lot of LCD display manufacturers, and the aspect ratio likely
indicates something Apple doesn't use. Has Microsoft secured volume
production?
The Ivy Bridge powered tablet is anticipated introduction to be delayed past the
Christmas buying season, this is all about the ARM powered tablet, likely caused
by Intel CPU allocation.
Will Microsoft be able to sell a largely untried Windows RT tablet in the sort
of volumes we saw for the first iPad?
Apple sold 300,000 iPads the first day, and 3 million in the first 80 days, 14.8
million in the first 9 months and 15.4 million in the last quarter of 2011
(comparable to Microsoft's RT introduction).
The products can be real and still be paper tigers, Microsoft customers will
either be left with a lump of coal or be pleasantly surprised come Christmas.
Meanwhile all this looks a bit like fainthearted test marketing.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 02:44 AM EDT |
My ideal camcorder specs can be found on one device --- the Red Epic-M.
My budget, however, does not stretch that far. :([ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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