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Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells

Posted by Soulskill on from the when-temporary-strategies-become-permanent dept.

DroidJason1 writes: "Revealed from a 10-Q filed by Microsoft with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft has been losing $300 million and counting for the Surface in the last nine months. Data from Strategy Analytics has also revealed that Microsoft's Windows-powered tablets now own a 6% global tablet share, in Q1 of 2014. Android, on the other hand, remains at the top with a 66% global share. Apple's iOS fell to 28%."

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  1. Re:Share of warehouse inventory not good metric by afidel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Old data is old, Android is up to 24% globally, and 35% in Asia and the trend lines are pretty obvious.

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  2. Re:Where does it state that? by afidel · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#...

    http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#...

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