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Upstream supply chain sees Surface RT orders cut by half
- Osmium 14y agoWhilst it may be accurate in this case, Digitimes is generally not a reliable source: http://techland.time.com/2012/05/14/digitimes-apple-rumors/ http://techland.time.com/2012/05/14/digitimes-apple-rumors/ That said, reports like this lend credence to it: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/26/microsoft-surface-tablet-apple-ipad/ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/26/microsoft-surface-tab...
- meaty 14y agoThere are very few reliable sources now. Everything is clickbait or aggregated news.
- meaty 14y agoAre they selling anyway? I haven't seen one out in the wild apart from our test machine (which incidentally is broken already).
- josephlord 14y agoMicrosoft is between a rock and a hard place. Sell competitively priced to boost the Win8 RT platform and Win8 tablet ecosystem generally and it kills the OEM market. Keep the price high and profitable and have a walking wounded platform being propped up by the desktop Win8 ecosystem but with touch/tablet functionality as an afterthought in many apps unless a vibrant competitively priced OEM environment arrives quickly. I won't pretend that I know what they should do but I'm not sure there is a safe path down the middle.