Although Apple sells tablets faster than it can produce them and many other manufacturers struggle to manufacture similar products, for Microsoft the tablet market is not really that attractive. This emerges from a intervened given by Craig Mundie, head of the research and strategy division at Microsoft. In his view, smartphones are the devices that will replace PCs and not tablets, even though in the last year the iPad broke all possible records in terms of sales and "stole" a good part of the sales of PC manufacturers.
Mobile is something that you want to use while you're moving, and portable is something that you move and then use. These are going to bump into one another a little bit and so today you can see tablets and pads and other things that are starting to live in the space in between. I don't know whether the big screen tablet pad category is going to remain with us or not.
It's interesting the strategy of those from Microsoft who, instead of focusing on sought-after products, focus on smartphones and laptops, although the trend suggests otherwise. Microsoft has lagged far behind in terms of tablets, but in the summer the launch of several new models is announced, which of course will run Windows 7 instead of Windows Phone 7. However, Microsoft has significant revenues and a higher profit than Apple, good luck Windows.
