This article is poorly written. Moreover, the author has little historical perspective that would allow him to avoid some of the false platitudes he was making.
Most egregiously, the famous “1984” ad was against IBM, NOT Microsoft. In those days, Microsoft was widely considered an imperfect good guy, licensing the PC-DOS they peddled to IBM because they oursmarted Big Blue on the original deal.
The author has NO memory of the Amelio and Spindler eras.
The U2 whatever wasn’t even a blip on the MacRumors forum (mostly fanboys, but enough real users to make it a reasonable place to check).
Finally, the presumption that Geekbench speed isa the only benchmark to count on a tablet is LAUGHABLE. Will a decent Intel processor beat a decent ARM processor in a broad array of uses? Of course.
And my old 1965 Chrysler 300, properly tuned, can pass almost anything except a gas station.
Tablet users generally value battery life OVER computational performance. In Apple’s case, many iOS users GREATLY value the gated garden software and OS approach. Those who want more options and more control at a possible cost of stability would opt for Android.
My guess is that the Surface is cannibalizing sales from Windows based laptops, and very little from iPad/Android.
Indeed so.
Weren’t the surface pro and surface pro2 both flops?
Not buying into the pro3.
Microsoft has a nasty habit of obsoleting hardware with their frequent system upgrades. Haven’t had that problem since I switched to Apple !
Rot in (redacted) Microsoft.
hahahaahaha