Surface Pro 3
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- monospaced0
LOL formed, you literally forgot to include the rest of that sentence. Here you go:
"... but without an exact break down of all the marketing and R&D costs involved, it's hard to say if Surface is profitable just yet."
- and before you jump on me, I 100% agree with you on all you wrote in your paragraph above thismonospaced
- It's not like Apple or anyone else includes their R&D or Marketing budgets in the profits for specific products...zarkonite
- Apple posts sales figures for actual products as well as for R&D yearly. Microsoft lost $1B on Surfaces already.monospaced
- Any company breaking into established spaces or carving a slightly new market will lose money at the onset.ETM
- Except for Apple?monospaced
- You do understand the difference between competing in an established market and creating a category, yes?ETM
- Surface is not a new category, but a divergence (or combination) or existing category(ies).ETM
- Apple has the credit for creating the new categories.monospaced
- Yeah, great. We know. Not what is being discussed.ETM
- iPhone, yes. Apple did not create the Laptop category, and tablet category is debatable.ETM
- Are you able to have a conversation without bring it back to Apple? Is that what working with you would be like?ETM
- *bringingETM
- dude, Microsoft made the comparison, that's what we're fucking talkign about actually, so lay offmonospaced