iPad: 7.1B - doomed category
Surface Pro/Books: 1.35B - super impressive, categories of the future!Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
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Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
The branding of the surface has been pretty successful with the removable keyboard and especially the pen. The pen makes it really easy to take notes on lecture slides so you do not have to have mess/organize/maintain physical paper.
I've found the pen to be the one part of my Surface that I don't use all, maybe it's because I am left handed and it leaves OneNote registering a ton of false navigation gestures but it's basically unusable for me. Overall, I still like my Surface (non Pro) but it's mostly for web browsing and media consumption.
I am surprised it does not come with a "left handed" setting! (Even if not two pen container compartments)
Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#13Impressive indeed! Over 19% of Apple's iPad revenue.
It's more comparable to at least a MacBook Air laptop.
Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#14They certainly did something right, though I'm not quite sure what it was. A few years back, you couldn't step in front of an undergrad class here (Canada) without being subject to a wall of glowing bitten apples staring at you, now at least a quarter I'd estimate are those surface tablets. Who knew people would take a chance on laptop that doesn't work when on your lap.
My wife has an SP3. Not only does it work fine on a lap, but it has a very nice stylus. It runs Adobe Indesign just fine. It runs Steam just fine, along with many slightly older games. The builtin speakers are good, as is the keyboard cover. It's quite portable and has a battery life of several hours when running Word + browser.
The Surface RT on the other hand remains kind of pointless.
Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The branding of the surface has been pretty successful with the removable keyboard and especially the pen. The pen makes it really easy to take notes on lecture slides so you do not have to have mess/organize/maintain physical paper.
I've found the pen to be the one part of my Surface that I don't use all, maybe it's because I am left handed and it leaves OneNote registering a ton of false navigation gestures but it's basically unusable for me. Overall, I still like my Surface (non Pro) but it's mostly for web browsing and media consumption.
I've heard [1] that you can go into Device settings for the pen/handwriting-recognition and set it to left handed and it will get better at ignoring the touches from your hand to the left of the pen.
[1] Not left handed myself.
Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found the pen to be the one part of my Surface that I don't use all, maybe it's because I am left handed and it leaves OneNote registering a ton of false navigation gestures but it's basically unusable for me. Overall, I still like my Surface (non Pro) but it's mostly for web browsing and media consumption.
I am surprised it does not come with a "left handed" setting! (Even if not two pen container compartments)
There is a setting for handedness in Windows (or at least there was in Windows 7). The most visible change was that context menus appeared on the other side (so that they don't appear under the hand). But if there is some kind of disabled touch zone near the stylus pointer it may be that it's in the direction of the hand as well.
Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#17iPad: 7.1B - doomed category Surface Pro/Books: 1.35B - super impressive, categories of the future!
Isn't this what people said about the original iPhone?
Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#18I got a surface book for work, its pretty sweet.
Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#19But how much profit did that generate? I don't see any mention of profit in the article.
Re: Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line
#20iPad: 7.1B - doomed category Surface Pro/Books: 1.35B - super impressive, categories of the future!
I think it has to do with the trajectory.
iPad = declining sales year over year
Surface = increasing sales year over year
The iPad was hyped to kill laptops/PCs and Surface's doom was also hyped, so the new data points are interesting because they look like a reversal of trend.