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New products can and do disrupt market trends, especially in such a huge market. > sounds like they are going after niche high-end tablet markets (those who wa

New products can and do disrupt market trends, especially in such a huge market. > sounds like they are going after niche high-end tablet markets (those who want Office + a keyboard), , and higher-end tablet markets (though who want to run Visual Studio).Completely opposite direction that at best will be a successful ultra-book. Niche in this market mean at least tens of millions of people. Not to say that the Surface Pro will succeed(pricing is important as you say) but the laptop/ultrabook market is still much bigger than the tablet, both the install base and sales.

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seanmcdirmid 14y ago
The PC market is not growing at any significant level, while the tablet market is exploding. Many analysts out there believe the tablet <$400 tablet market will be bigger than the PC market in just a few years. The PC market might remain at its current size, tablets won't replace PCs, but there will just be a lot of tablets out there. Of course, you could be right, people could be looking for fuller PC experiences in their tablets, and then Microsoft will win big (and my stock as a MS employee will go up, yeh!). But this trend of going lower price/smaller screen doesn't really indicate that this is happening, although we really have to wait for the iPad mini to see how that really plays out.