Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
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Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#2Very impressive entrance into what I thought would have been a well mature market by this point.
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#3I'm surprised by this as well, but I wonder how many of them were bought as "trophy" purchases, put on display in the lobby and the CEO's office.
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#4The "board" part of Weiser's original "pads, tabs, and boards" vision [0] always made logical sense, but for some reason never realized itself. I'm a bigger fan of the tabletop form factor myself (see for example the original "surface"). It'll be interesting to see how this grows.
> to boot, it's a piece of hardware that it got right even in version one
Except it's not version one; see the surface and surface 2 before the current surface :)
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#5Very impressive entrance into what I thought would have been a well mature market by this point.
Integration with Microsoft services is probably a good selling point .
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#6Really surprised by the specs and cost of this thing compared to what's out there. Might be the reason Google is making their Jamboard.
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#7I've been using one at work for a while now and I love them, which to me was a huge suprise. Its a product that finally got almost everything right when it comes to a digital whiteboard. And yes to another point that was raised here certainly integration with Mircosoft services was a plus. Its great to have a computer interface that is remote on half the board and white board interface on the other. You can mock up while you have the specs inches away from your face on a huge screen so everyone in the room can read and interact. The skype integration kills it as well; there's been a number of times I've seen teams huddled around the board mocking things up with one or two people remote.
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#8Very impressive entrance into what I thought would have been a well mature market by this point.
If Microsoft has managed to make it "just work" (I don't know if they have, but that was the pitch IIRC), then I can understand the enthusiasm. Most of the existing solutions have all the features you need, but fall on their face in the case of reliability and ease of just setting up a meeting. Being able to say "no more 10 minute scrambles at the beginning of meetings to get the tech working" is probably worth a lot.
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#9How does the Whiteboard work on this and is it effective?
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#10I'm surprised by this as well, but I wonder how many of them were bought as "trophy" purchases, put on display in the lobby and the CEO's office.
"The average Surface Hub customer is buying about 50 devices for each deployment...(and) One (unnamed) car manufacturer bought 1,500 of the thing"
Sounds like people are actually rolling them out through all their conference rooms