Clearly Apple is a hardware manufacturer according to the common business definition. Samsung is doing very, very well in the mobile device market - second only to Apple. Hardly anyone else makes a profit!
Really it is quite simple to analyse the confounding situation Microsoft finds itself in with regard to pricing its mobile OS bundle. They can either price it high or they can price it low. I consider why they priced it high.
iPad in the current reality is the high end of popular mobile tablet devices. One need only look at tablets for sale at Amazon.
You say that "Microsoft needs to make a product that people want". OK. But Microsoft sells software - and does not have direct control over what actually gets sold to tablet customers. This software approach worked for the commodity PC market for decades - thus the chasm.
I agree with your arguments about Microsoft's bet on Windows 8.
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Clearly Apple is a hardware manufacturer according to the common business definition. Samsung is doing very, very well in the mobile device market - second only to Apple. Hardly anyone else makes a profit!
Really it is quite simple to analyse the confounding situation Microsoft finds itself in with regard to pricing its mobile OS bundle. They can either price it high or they can price it low. I consider why they priced it high.
iPad in the current reality is the high end of popular mobile tablet devices. One need only look at tablets for sale at Amazon.
You say that "Microsoft needs to make a product that people want". OK. But Microsoft sells software - and does not have direct control over what actually gets sold to tablet customers. This software approach worked for the commodity PC market for decades - thus the chasm.
I agree with your arguments about Microsoft's bet on Windows 8.