“Yeah, the same OS which will be in over a billion PCs and other devices within 3 years. What a problem!!!”
Yep, the majority of which will are dirt cheap and sell for well under $1000.... Sorry, but the market for high end hardware for the PC market is basically gamers... Windows machines sell because of cost points, a high end PC running windows has a market demand of next to nothing.. Its the VALUE play, that’s all its got. Will a small percentage of windows buyers pay for high end hardware? Sure.. but the majority aren’t going to give something like this consideration
Windows is the Walmart of the PC world, tons of low end low margin products making up the overwhelming majority of sales, because the 90%+ of the market is not going to pay a premium for it.. One can spend $1500 for a pc running windows with high end components... or one can spend $500 for a pc running windows with cheap components... both will equally perform the tasks th do most, surf the web, watch youtube and porn and send email and word process on.
“It’s also the same OS which OSX users need to install in order to get anything productive or value done.”
If you believe that, you really are about 20 years out of touch.
Lets check the sales figures in 12 months and see where this thing lands, particularly if we are privy to the give away factor MS will probably do to prop up its numbers just like it has done with the Surface Pros.
What MS is aiming for with the Surface devices, is a decent number of sales that will keep it profitable and alive. But, mostly, MS has been designing and developing ideas via the Surface line that, hopefully, will lead the Windows OEMs to come out with a lot more desirable devices. Windows was not the problem with PCs. Microsoft was not the problem with PCs. The problem was that the OEMs were producing devices that could attract people to Windows.
When it comes to ‘dirt cheap’ devices, the real fact is that, even those cheap devices were and are very capable, and can do most of all of the same stuff that an Apple Mac can do. Most consumers don’t need the $2,000-$3,000 PC to do whatever they need to do. Apple stuff is about status and showing off and bragging. There really is no need for super-expensive PCs, or even expensive tablets or expensive smartphones. For what the vast majority of people do with their devices, a $150 smartphone will do, and a $300-$800 PC will do. When even the cheap stuff lasts as long as the expensive stuff, and can basically do the same stuff, then, the higher prices are about status and bragging rights and being cool.