Surface RT is not in great demand among buyers. Thus,
analysts IDC found that Microsoft has shipped a total of 900 000 of its
tablets. Moreover, the company from Redmond faced with the fact of mass return
device buyers.
Experts from another company, IHS iSuppli, claim that
Microsoft has shipped about 1,250,000 Surface RT. But to end users reached only
from 680 000 to 750 000. The remaining plates are still gathering dust in
warehouses of retailers, so the first quarter of the manufacturer made a small
order for the production of these devices.
But it's much worse for
Microsoft is that analysts say the
high level of return
Surface RT. And the main reason for this is not the
gadget, and its operating system. Users unhappy interface
Windows RT and the
very limited number of available applications. Because of the very high
percentage of returning American corporation was forced to allow the company
store to accept
Surface with already opened.
As disadvantages Surface RT also called lack of a standard
e-mail client Outlook and compatibility with the familiar desktop Windows
operating system software. Experts said a similar problem affected and some
recently introduced Android-tablets.
The analysts point out that the
iPad do not stay in stock
and almost immediately sold them off. For comparison, in the last quarter
Apple
sold 22.9 million of its tablet, leaving other manufacturers only a small part
of this market.