"If at first you don't succeed, you're about average" comes to mind.
I personally think Windows 8 is the core of all issues. Many hate the OS, justly or not, and that causes any device with Windows 8 on it to sell a lot less units. They're actually lucky selling as many Windows 8 licenses as they have, even I got two and use neither (they forced it down my throat while buying new hardware, even though the OEM license states that there must be a license return policy, which HP just violates).
The ads for the Surface are pretty neat I think, and others I heard about it thought the same, but meanwhile nobody is buying. Apple somehow got people to use iPad as synonym for the word tablet. Microsoft really has to show an advantage over the iPad or a laptop, but so far nobody has seen any.
I personally think Windows 8 is the core of all issues. Many hate the OS, justly or not, and that causes any device with Windows 8 on it to sell a lot less units. They're actually lucky selling as many Windows 8 licenses as they have, even I got two and use neither (they forced it down my throat while buying new hardware, even though the OEM license states that there must be a license return policy, which HP just violates).
The ads for the Surface are pretty neat I think, and others I heard about it thought the same, but meanwhile nobody is buying. Apple somehow got people to use iPad as synonym for the word tablet. Microsoft really has to show an advantage over the iPad or a laptop, but so far nobody has seen any.