The biggest problem with any iPad competitor is that they don't have the apps to back anything up. The only hope this tablet has is if it has good connectivity with peripherals such as printers and PCs, and has Office on it. For that reason, I can see businesses buying this and some consumers. iDevices have terrible connectivity, so that is all they can take advantage of really.

I think that'll be their first market they go after: Enterprise. The IT departments of these large businesses are very reluctant to go with iPads because it's completely incompatible with their Windows ecosystem and these departments tend to be managed very conservatively. This thing has Office on it so IT departments will be much less reluctant to embrace them. It's the same strategy MS used with Windows in the early years...Apple went into schools hoping to build loyal customers from the students and MS went into business. MS made Office and they won, Apple has never able to get that market share away from MS.

Phones, MP3 players and tablets are another issue entirely. As RIM continues it's slow death spiral this thing combined with Windows phones has a chance to get some real penetration in the enterprise market.

I think they will have the apps to back it up easily on the Intel device. The ARM is going to be the tough one because legacy apps wont install. Hopefully this will be the first step in pushing developers to make Metro apps for RT devices. I have high hopes and personally like to see the positive in any device that gets made from any company.

Well, I don't think that will be the case this time around. I'm sure Windows 8 will have enough apps to go around...