General Consultant Discussion

This is going to be VERY interesting to watch. It's one thing to blow smoke at easily impressed tech analysts starved for stories to write. It's another thing to deliver a truly competitive tablet when the bar is already very high in this market...

Especially interesting because MS is trying to also stay in the phone market, and the two device types have significant market linkage. Based on MS' recent (like, 10 yrs) history, you'd have to give MS less than even odds that it will succeed. However, The big difference between then and now is that we now know what works in both tablets and phones; before, everybody was thrashing around. There is unlikely to be another disruptive design element soon; we're talking for now about linear improvements in functionality and pricing. It's almost inevitible that Apple's market share dominance will eventually decline. It's just not clear who will benefit when it does.

I wasn't aware Microsoft was still a going concern. This is interesting.

This article makes some good points. Just wait until people go to buy this in the store. One model runs regular Windows apps. One doesn't. To me that issue alone is too confusing for this product to ever become a mainstream success.... http://www.informationweek.com/byte/news/personal-tech/tablets/240002303