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Wouldn't it be possible that it is 90-100 Taiwan dollar instead of US dollar. than the license cost is 3.4 US dollar. It seems to me that it would be suicide of
by stefanve 14y ago
Wouldn't it be possible that it is 90-100 Taiwan dollar instead of US dollar. than the license cost is 3.4 US dollar. It seems to me that it would be suicide of MS to command such a high price for its tablet OS. It would make the tablet as expensive as its desktop OS. Not a great strategy to conquer the "iPad market". A pricing akin to windows mobile would seem to be more logical.
- nextparadigms 14y agoNo. Having to charge $100 even for the bare-bones/no-legacy support Windows 8 ARM version is exactly why they did this instead of using WP7 and expanding it for tablets. Because then they would've had to charge only $15 for it, or maybe a little more, but that's about it. It's still a huge mistake for Microsoft to do this though, when Android is free.
- joenathan 14y agoAndroid isn't free if you want the Play Store/Google Maps/Gmail, not to mention the effort needed to write the drivers for the hardware.