A tablet is a tablet, and a PC is a PC. They may both have computers in them, but they do different things.
Every college in the country is ready to ditch printed textbooks in favor of issuing tablets to every student. School districts are leaning that way too, and for the first time I’m not sure I disagree with that strategy.
The e-texts that are coming out are incredible, and it doesn’t make sense to kill trees to produce textbooks any more. The price of a textbook can come WAY down, since the only production costs remaining would be the actual IP and the book layout. Manufacturing and distribution costs come down to zero.
Microsoft would be fiduciarily irresponsible if the DIDN’T go into that market.
Add to that the Ipad blows on so many different levels, not the least of which is the unbelievable cost of them. It’s funny to watch liberals attack Apple now that their god is dead. Jobs sole claim to fame was making middling technology available to the idiotic. He made the ordinary feel extraordinary, and I’m not taking anything away from that feat.
On the way to doing that, he abandoned children, treated employees like slaves, outsourced every job he could, ran his company like a quasi-criminal operation, and gave nothing back to anyone for any reason.
On the left, he’s the second coming of Christ.
Er, what competing product of similar hardware spec has sold for less? Not to mention the added value of iOS which by all accounts is both simpler to use and more polished than the competition...
Actually Apple has been killing the competition on price, and yet is still making better margins as it is now buying in major volume. For instance, Apple is now the #1 consumer worldwide of flash memory. Think that conveys much bargaining leverage? ;-)
In short, you're mistaken.