The Verge: Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablet by 30 percent worldwide because it's simply not selling. It’s also taking a $900 million hit related to the stock it has left over. For a company that has struggled, with the exception of Xbox, to generate consumer interest in hardware products like Zune and Kin, was Surface RT always doomed? Is Microsoft's iPad competitor quickly becoming another Zune?
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The famous ChatGPT application for Apple Watch, Petey, became available for iPhone a couple of months ago.
I swear to God, I don't think Microsoft knows what consumers think. They know their enterprise market but I feel like they have no clue as to what the consumers want. They think Windows and Office are actually “loved” and “wanted” and that’s why they have 93% market share.
I need this in my life, I cant wait, it was a sad day when zune died, it was clearly ahead of its time.
despite what people thought, the zune faithful was pretty happy. i just hope for drag and dop music management vs some shit program.
It would be nice if they would release a product and support it like they did with Xbox.
Zune was awesome, then MS got bored and release Windows phone. They went "sorry, but this time it will be different! We will support it!"
Thats a good promise, but how long did they promise support for Zune and it never came? So I sold my Zune and Zune HD, and jumped to Android.
Good thing I did. MS already jumped to Windows 8 (RT), screwing early adopters, and so far can't even get basic apps offered on it....
Just think about it this way, what does Windows RT (phones and tablets) offer that the competitors don't? Nothing. What do they lack that competitors have? A lot.