Microsoft's CEO Steven Ballmer has said that his company's new Surface tablet is what customers want, and competitors such as Apple's iPad, Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire are products that you can't really use.
"I don't think anyone has done a product that I see customers wanting," Ballmer told CNBC.
"You can go through the products from all those guys… and none of them has a product that you can really use," Ballmer continued. "Not Apple. Not Google. Not Amazon. Nobody has a product that lets you work and play that can be your tablet and your PC. Not at any price point."
"We knew our partners who make computers are doing a great job. But we weren't going to let any branch of information go uncovered, so with the Microsoft Surface we have ventured out to do an innovative new design for the tablet PC, " he added.
"Windows 8 is really all about enabling new, creative, imaginative devices," Ballmer said. "PC Notebooks, PC desktops, PC laptops and now PC tablets as well, that you can touch and interact with and that are alive with information in a way, that frankly, no other device is available on the market today."
Ballmer's confident comments follow Apple CEO Tim Cook's statement that Microsoft's Surface is a "compromised" and "confusing" device.
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theanimaster said on Wed, 31 Oct 2012
When Steve Ballmer farts it all comes out of his mouth. This sad sorry relic of the past should have been fired from MS long ago. Now that Apple's cleaning out the dead skin in their own... I wonder what MS is going to do with Ballmer?
theanimaster said on Wed, 31 Oct 2012
When Steve Ballmer farts it all comes out of his mouth. This sad sorry relic of the past should have been fired from MS long ago. Now that Apple's cleaning out the dead skin in their own... I wonder what MS is going to do with Ballmer?
coldstream said on Thu, 01 Nov 2012
"The Surface is the tablet customers really want, not the iPad"
So 14 million people in one quarter alone must really be kicking themselves at being so stupid.
Dragonfly said on Thu, 01 Nov 2012
I think this will probably sell quite well. Not sure what Surface does though other than:-
1). Allow you to snap on and off its keyboard and swap it with someone nearby.
2). Allow you to dance around a table while swapping keyboards multiple times.
Two very odd features to concentrate on (although I guess it's really one feature, the other is just doing it while dancing), but I guess those capabilities will be a god send to someone out there.
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