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Report Claims Microsoft Beat Apple in Online Tablet Sales for October (winbeta.org)
Eloking writes: Apple's iPad tablet ushered in the modern tablet era when it was introduced in 2010, and it's dominated tablet sales ever since. iPad sales have stagnated recently, but nevertheless Apple has maintained its lead in overall tablet market share. WinBeta received an early version of an upcoming report, '1010data Facts for Ecom Insights, January 2014 – October 2015' by the 101data Ecom Insights Panel, however, that indicates all of that might be changing as Microsoft assumes the mantle of best-selling tablet maker in terms of online sales in October.
The summary says "online sales" which means that we are probably NOT talking about "shipped" rather than "sold" numbers. However, these are numbers for October, which is all before the new iPads shipped (including the iPad Pro) so we are probably seeing some depression of iPad sales that will catch up in the November numbers (or not: if MS can maintain these sales numbers in November and December, then this would be quite interesting).
just a ghost in the machine.
The pen is shit. Horrific lag, unpredictable latency.
Couldn't disagree more. It's the best pen input device I've used that didn't need to be physically tethered to a computer, and the lag is quite predictable (really bad in hover, almost non existent when touching)
Tried the builtin software ("fresh paint"?), what a pile of crap.
This I agree with, wholeheartedly. Great little kids toy but even then only if they want to play with swishing colours together. It's garbage.
$99 to replace the battery in a 128GB iPad Air 2 in 3 years strikes me as a pretty reasonable price. It is about 12% of the cost of the device and it would restore it to like new condition.
If the other option is spending $700 on a new one, $99 for a battery seems quite reasonable.