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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
True, but Windows tablets never set the world on fire.
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High prices + absolutely zero marketing.
Contrast with the marketing and product placement of Surface.
And the UI stuff is oversold.
If the "simple" UI is so much better why have both iOS and Android been scrambling to add (watered-down) multi-window and pen features that Tablet PC had 13 years ago?
And one of the highlights of Win10 is you can use the desktop UI fulltime, even with touch and on keyboard-less systems, with and without pen. Just like my old HP TabletPC.
What my new Tablet PC gives me is less weight (yay! 2lbs with keyboard vs 3.5 lbs), longer battery life (10+ hrs vs 7), and a lot less CPU heat. Plus a much lower price ($279 vs $900). All in the hardware.
The Software hasn't needed any refinement since the Vista era. It was already way ahead of the other tablet OSes in plumbing, APIs, and capability. Main mistake MS made with Win8 was not trusting their own tech. With Win10 they are recommiting to it.
And marketing.
The only OS that comes close to Windows is Linux and even that lags in the pen and natural language areas. So now that tablet users are getting over the novelty of mobile media consumption a lot of them are looking for more capability in the higher end models.
Which brings us back to the Pixel C, an attempt to boost the productivity capabilities of Android. But looking at those prices...
You have to really want Android to pay more than a Surface for a pixel.