I'm not seeing a large niche for them in content creation. If we were starting off with tablets being the dominant player; the thing that most people used and g

I'm not seeing a large niche for them in content creation. If we were starting off with tablets being the dominant player; the thing that most people used and grew up with, then it'd be different. However, the content creation market is already fairly competitive, and the pain points this would solve over and above what's already there don't seem significant. The questions in that regard seem as follows: Why would artists opt for a, relatively small, imprecise pen over something from Waccom? Why would programmers opt for working on a small laptop analogue compared to a computer with multiple monitors? Why would writers opt for this over a computer or a laptop? I can see people writing a blog post on one, or sitting in a lecture hall with one - but even there, the advantage over an apple laptop; which is pretty light already; seems negligible. Unless you have to travel a significant distance on foot. There it has the advantages that tablets always had: Light device, relatively good battery life. But by and large, the competition for Surface in the tablet space seems likely not to be other tablets. It seems more likely to be the tools - some of which are, when you get down to it, fairly specialised - that people are already using.