Microsoft Surface RT Priced

Those price points EXACTLY match the three for the iPad (without 3G).

Compared to the iPad:

£399 - an extra 16GB "free"
£479 - a "free" cover
£529 - a "free" cover

So it is very competitive for a 10" tablet since nobody else has been able to even come close to Apple in terms of price.

I just think the entire tablet space is going to focus around 7" though when Apple joins in.
 
Glaucus said:
7" is to small, I would be shocked if 7" outsells 10"

And 7" is not going to compete in the corporate sector.

But of course it would be nice if we had far more choice. That will come in feb/march where non launch partners are expected to launch their tablets.
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The thing is though that a 10" tablet at £399 is still pretty pointless for most people. For roughly that price you'd be able to get a decent 15" Laptop (as I just did) that has way, way more functionality and purpose.

A 7" tablet at £199 is perfect. Most people will use them for music/video/web/books and £199 is an acceptable price for an additional device. Just watch. I expect the iPad mini to do to tablets as the iPod mini did to MP3 players (in other words move it from everyone knowing about it to everyone actually using one).
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
Cyan does look ridiculously sexy, tough choice. I think I might hold off on the tablet front until I see how well this gets supported. If it's going to be all about the apps then it'll need a good library to make me consider it over the App Store on iOS devices. Still... that cyan keyboard. :p
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Glaucus said:
The App Store is small ATM, but roughly 100apps a day being added, ~4500 apps currently.

Loads of the big names have allready confirmed apps, or have apps released allready. Best things is to make a list of apps you want and see if they exist.

For example a few of the big names to allready confirm
Instagram
Angry birds
Audible
Netflix
Spotify
Splashtop
7digital (Spotify like company)
Firefox
Nook
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POB said:
One advantage Microsoft have is the excellent Visual Studio, and tons and tons of .NET developers.

Plus with Azure they have a decent platform for developers to host services on, overall its a much better supported system then Apple.

Then you can port existing code form Xbox or Windows.

So I think getting the devices into the hands of users cheaply enough is the biggest problem, the developers are already there.
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K1LLSW1TCH said:
Thanks for the info guys, as long as the main apps are there then that'll be enough for me. I use my iPhone mainly for the browser, Last.fm, Sky Sports News, BBC News, Amazon, Sky GO and some catch up services like 4OD and iPlayer. I'm imagining that the majority of those will be on the Windows Store if they aren't already on there right now, plus I'm expecting the browser to be nicer than the browser on the iPhone which I find to be a chore to navigate, maybe that's down to the small screen size though.
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Pigeon_Killer said:
So they're going head on against Apple with virtually no brand value (I mean that in the sense that people just don't find MS a desirable product) and hardly any applications? This will flop.
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If Windows 8 sells half as well as Windows 7 initially that'll be 50 million people in 6 months they can target apps to. That's a lot of people...
 
EDDS said:
That's the trouble with todays media, they are so far up apples arse that when a game changer comes along, they can't see it.
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Haha quite possibly...

[RXP]Andy;23025378 said:
The Guardian, normally seem to be very apple bias normally. So as above really.
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That's why I added that is was mostly a collection of other reviews :p

The collection of reviews over at gdgt seem to be agreeing mostly with each other though. That it's good but not great. Guess we'll have to wait until Friday to see what the guinea pigs think :D
 
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