It's not the device its the software, the platform. Surface is just a device. Maybe it will succeed, may be it will fail but windows as a platform has been ther

It's not the device its the software, the platform. Surface is just a device. Maybe it will succeed, may be it will fail but windows as a platform has been there an will be there as long as Microsoft is around. An app for surface is not limited to Surface it can run on millions of other PCs that run Windows 8.