Apple and Windows tablet futures
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Competitive predictions of Windows tablet growth — iOS holding steady and Android losing ground — whaddya guys think?
I think Surface products are highly competitive and very cool.
That being said, I am not ready to upgrade. I find my Asus X205ta notebook running Windows 8 handles the Scrivener program just fine. ($120)
If one can afford a Windows Tablet compared to a Android Tablet then sure I’d buy one...... Apple is out of the question.
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I think this is good — 3 competitors will give sufficient profits and yet competition so that consumers get the best and innovation spreads
I'd believe it. Mainly because MS is going to (heck, already is) marketing the heck out of their tablets. So they will pick up some market share. Maybe not as much as they'd like though. A few of my tech-savvy friends ah "in the younger generation" shall we say see the MS offerings as overpriced.
But marketing $ typically work, at least a little so I expect them to increase. On the other side of the coin though, Apple people tend to be very loyal to their brand. I wouldn't expect too many to jump ship. The small amount that does will probably be made up for by new converts. So I would see Apple holding steady.
It is hard to say where the market is going. I wonder however, if Apple is gambling by not creating one common platform among its devices like Google and Microsoft? Microsoft needs the continuum to jump start a late and weak entry into the phone and tablet market.
Microsoft is super anxious to make Windows 10 as pervasive as possible. You make a guess, but MS can’t be changing more than $5-10 to install Windows 10 on some of those $69 tablets. Competition from Apple, Android OS, Chrome OS on laptops has made MS neurotic and paranoid