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I think it's worth remembering that MSFT should consider itself lucky, that it has customers to drive away. The pro 1 came out only a just few short years ago,

I think it's worth remembering that MSFT should consider itself lucky, that it has customers to drive away. The pro 1 came out only a just few short years ago, and they wrote down a lot of that product. It's really weird to say this about the guys who once were called the Borg, but I have faith in their design team. Sadly they seem to be creating an expectation that one should wait for the 3rd device in a series.

radiorental 11y ago
Perfect is the enemy of done From a business perspective - the end result is the same. Whether you wait for Steve to stop barking say 'ship it'. Or you ship when it's 'good enough. Apple knew where the hockey puck was heading as early as the mid 90's [1] and could probably have shipped something better than the Newton but before the iPhone. They were touch and go there for a while. Microsoft can afford to ship first and ask questions later. The end result in terms of getting the product right within a given timeframe is the same. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPS1DMlzz0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPS1DMlzz0M
smacktoward 11y ago
"Wait for version 3" has been the conventional wisdom about Microsoft products for decades now. (Example: Windows didn't really take off until Windows 3.1.) Their modus operandi has always been to throw stuff out there, and then if it seems to be finding a market iterate on it until it doesn't suck anymore. So in that respect Surface is just continuing the grand tradition.