2014年7月24日星期四

Lenovo is not abandoning small-screen Windows tablets in spite of everything

 

Lenovo caused slightly of a kerkuffle last week once it came to light-weight that the corporate had stopped commercialism its 8-inch Windows tablets in North America owing to light client demand. A Lenovo interpreter even same the maximum amount, telling PCWorld that "we’re seeing stronger interest within the larger screen sizes for Windows tablets."

That news should not have Sat well with somebody, as a result of it prompted the corporate to issue a press release informative its position with relevance small-screen Windows tablets. In it, Lenovo same that it had not, in fact, abandoned manufacturing 8-inch slates running Windows 8; rather, it had sold-out out of the smaller-sized Miix and stopped commercialism the ThinkPad eight (pictured above).

In alternative words, the corporate had stopped commercialism within the class for currently, going open the chance that it'd manufacture 8-inch Windows pills within the future: "[W]e aren't obtaining out of the small-screen Windows tablet business as was according by the media." (Emphasis from Lenovo)

The temporal arrangement of Lenovo's call to (temporarily) exit the smaller finish of the Windows pill market wasn't notably well regular with Microsoft's announcement last week that it had been attending to bolster that phase by giving freely Windows eight to makers making smartphones and tablets that sport screens of nine inches or smaller. each things do counsel, however, that despite the recognition of the shape issue (whether for budget automaton tablets or the iPad mini), Microsoft has not been able to exploit it the maximum amount because it would really like. (The long-rumored Surface mini remains M.I.A., as an example.)

Microsoft is clearly targeted on extending Windows market share to the new world of cheaper mobile devices, together with affordable laptops which will vie with Chromebooks. The small-screen pill realm is another side of that strategy, that the indisputable fact that Lenovo must clairfy its position therein market would counsel that its partnership with Microsoft in manufacturing 8-inch slates is power train up for a second act. whereas the laptop maker's call to depart the area currently indicates a notable bump within the road for Windows eight on smaller screen tablets, it remains to be seen if it is a symptom of a fatal flaw in obtaining customers to use the OS on 8-inch devices.


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