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0 pointspjmlp9y ago0 comments

They lost the mobile phone, but I bet they will win the hybrid tablet/netbooks one, given how Android tablets disappeared from many consumer shops here in Germany, only to be replaced by Windows 10 ones.

Samsung and Asus ones seem to have been the surviving brands and even they have Win10 devices on their brand sections.

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coldtea9y ago· 2 in thread

>They lost the mobile phone, but I bet they will win the hybrid tablet/netbooks one, given how Android tablets disappeared from many consumer shops here in Germany, only to be replaced by Windows 10 ones.

That could just be a regional anomaly.

pjmlpOP9y ago

Then it is an European regional anomaly, because I have seen it in other countries that I visit regularly (southern Europe).

On the other hand, speaking about regional anomalies, I almost never seen Chromebooks on sale, or people using them. Yet they apparently sell like hot cakes in US.

AsyncAwait9y ago

Can confirm that this is the case here in the UK as well.

bitmapbrother9y ago· 2 in thread

No they won't. No one wants to use clunky non touch optimized windows desktop apps on a tablet. Besides, UWP was a failure.

pjmlpOP9y ago

Ever heard of Project Centennial?

Or the fact that all new APIs are mostly UWP only?

bitmapbrother9y ago

Yes, and how's that coming along? Is this "project" supposed to make those old clunky non touch optimized windows desktop apps suddenly usable on a tablet? I don't think so. Instead its going to be another failure just like Project Astoria and Project Islandwood.

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