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Originally Posted by jswinden
I suspect over the next few years computer companies will be building lots of Win8 tablets and few Android tablets. Win8 is going to beat the pants off of iOS and Android. Microsoft is late to the game, as usual, but they have the ability to change the game and that they will.
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Android is free, Windows 8 is estimated to cost an OEM $75 to license. That's a $75 price penalty for every MS based tablet in a market where the only way to grab market share from the market leader (Apple) is on price. MS had two years to blow IOS out of the water, and failed. Given the fact that MS just cut Nokia off at the knees with their Windows Phone 8 "upgrade" it would be a bold/naive OEM that heavily invested in the MS platform. Nokia spends Millions advertising Windows Phone with the tag line that the beta test is over, and then MS announces that those Brand New phones people just bought have no upgrade path to Windows Phone 8, and that software developed for Windows Phone 8 won't be compatible, so basically Zero hardware and software crossover between the platforms. In other words, Windows Phone was a beta test and a technological dead end. The death knell for Nokia.
Microsoft has the potential, but they keep screwing things up so completely, they are absolute masters at shooting themselves in the foot.