Redmond expands fanboi trade-in program to include iPhones Microsoft has expanded its trade-in program for iOS devices to include iPhones, in addition to iPads. Earlier this month, the software giant began offering customers in the US and Canada $200 gift certificates to the Microsoft Store in exchange for iPad trade-ins, in hopes that customers would spend the dough on a Surface …
Tesco has a Surface on display next to a load of ebook devices, I have never seen anyone even look at it let alone try it out.
It is not often in life I can say with all honesty that 'they are really taking the piss!
I sold a pristine 4S for £190 and have had someone offer me £350 for a pristine 5.....
I'd love to know the stats on how many trade ins they get...
Well I stated Windows Phone 7 was a 'stepping stone' product as it wouldn't be able to run the NT Kernel, which was then an obvious progression (to anyone that knows about these things), as Ballmer has been critical of Apple of its two separate OS's.
...And boy did I get slated by the MS shill brothers, stating MS would never kill the existing WP7 Platform ecosystem, WP7 Users would be offered a full upgrade. How wrong they were.
The only flames you'll see imminently are the one's aimed at you. (But if the 5C drops to £329, Windows Phone is well and truely dead in the water for Enterprise use, which means you're probably right)
You have to give it to Apple, the rollout of iOS 7 has been pretty impressive.
Microsoft need to be brave, and ditch Metro/Modern Interface, there is no love, and no love will be lost.
Very Brave would be licensing iOS Apps platform from Apple, running those in a virtual machine and having a native engine for new MS Apps.
dreamed this idea up?
Users in general want to *UPGRADE*.
People will not sell a device for less than its second hand market value.
No further research is necessary to realise that is is an entirely one way proposition.
Any takers must subconsciously wish to harm themselves.
The surface pro has its uses. It has pressure sensitivity, so for cartoonists it's a very definite upgrade from an ipad (also as it runs Illustrator natively)... The next step is a Wacom pressure sensitive monitor for a few thousand quid, so it's clear that for most the Pro is the only game in town. (Drawing on a tablet with the result seen on a screen is so much less responsive than drawing on the screen.)
That's a world market of at least a few hundred.
A niche joke product for cartoonists. Once every cartoonist has one, the market is saturated.
Win8 Surface RT/Pro are at least MS's 4th tilt at the tablet platform and thus far they have all been absolute disasters.
Upping the specs for the next range of tablets will do nothing. It isn't the MHz or Mbytes that are wrong, but the whole ecosystem.
In the past attempts, Microsoft were hoping to make great inroads into big organisations with people that need their data on the move. A classic case of this would be hospitals with a huge computerised record-keeping system and the medical staff having tablets where they could pull up patient records/drug info as they need. Of course such a system would use MS from the back-end to the front end.
Web-based data presentation has largely killed this dream. Once large data systems got a web front-end, pretty much any device could be used. Why would anyone choose a product from a company with no commitment to its non-core products?
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