[dba-Tech] The latest MS Surface price leak

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Tue Aug 14 22:29:23 CDT 2012


There wasn't a whole lot of positivity for this in that article.

If MS does do this, then they are giving the middle finger to the OEMs and either taking a substantial loss over a long period of time of time or only having a brief amount of success for a short period of time and then a lot of negativity and disinterest when they jack prices up again.

On top of this, Google's Nexus 7 is going for $200 as well and already has a strong ecosystem. Why would anyone go with a MS tablet when dominance and loyalty for Windows on desktops apparently does not transfer onto the tablet space (except for some of you diehard Microsofties)? Might as well get a Google tablet.

I'm not sure this is a winning strategy and I just think it's too little too late for Microsoft to compete. IMO, the market at this point is simply about people who want iPads and people who don't. Microsoft would be better off dreaming up the next new technology that will knock everyones socks off like how Apple did with the iPhone.

Hans




On 2012-08-14, at 6:05 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> Surface tablets rumored to ship with $199 price tag
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/14/surface_199_price_tag/
> 
> That price point could change a lot of things.
> 
> Jim
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