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Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells
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%."
Yeah, I find it hard to call something a "full-featured pc" if you can't even install Firefox.
Try a 2013 Nexus 7? WRT software, I find it very odd that even today iOS doesn't support multiple/restricted profiles. They're not that useful in a phone but make perfect sense on a tablet - I can "sandbox" the tablet for my daughter to be kid-friendly (and deny access to a browser, for now).
No point in trying to talk sense to him. He's a died in the wool fanboy (you see SuperKendall on all of these threads trying to find any reason, no matter how vauge or far reaching to try and disprove anything slightly critical of Apple).
I highly doubt he's used an Android tablet in his life. Basically he has to recycle any old myth no matter how many times it's been disproved.
But that aside most Ipad users who've tried my Nexus 7 (2013) have commented that it's faster than an Ipad, even those who are fanboys have been begrudgingly forced to admit it's a great tablet. Software, well seeing as you use your browser for everything these days it doesn't matter but the quality of software on Android these days matches or superceeds that of Apple.
People will choose what they like, but some people like our friend Mr SuperKendall cant accept that.
Me, I like my Nexus 7 but I'd rather sell it to others on the good points of having one, rather than the bad points of the competition.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Show me a tablet with 8GB of RAM running Eclipse and the Android SDK and I'll believe you.
People are choosing Android to get away from the Windows complexity and bloat. Why replicate it on a compact device?
AIDE, DeuterIDE etc are made for the job, and in the case of AIDE are Eclipse-compatible. Choose whichever suits your purpose.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
I think I saw somewhere that the Android USB dongles also identify as tablets for these analytic purposes - I wonder how much those things skew the numbers.
Plus, Strategy Analytics is a company that is paid to write these reports by vested interests. Often, their "data" doesn't stand the test of time.
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Market share != profit share. Market share isn't terribly important at all unless it becomes so low that you have trouble achieving economy of scale or attracting developers. Neither of those things has happened, so Apple continues to be insanely profitable for a hardware maker.
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