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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I still don't see why that is. At the same price as the iPad, the corresponding win8 tablet has better specs. With specs as low as the iPad's it is easy to lower the price. And there will be low end win8 tablets on the market.
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Microsoft is unlikely to compete with Apple head-to-head on polish, features, app ecosystem, and consumer mind share. Taking on the iPad straight up is likely to fail, as much as I'd hope otherwise. Amazon realized this so they went for a different slice of the market with the Fire.
If Manufacturers don't beat Apple on price then I don't think they're going to get enough market attention to succeed. I mean MS could have owned the tablet market years ago, but they let it languish with high-priced models with poor useability. Consumers stayed away in droves. I'm hoping they don't make the same mistakes with Win8. We'll see.