Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet has been spectacularly unsuccessful, with Microsoft announcing yesterday that it is taking a $900 million hit on the product.
But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is going to give up trying to sell you one. It just lowered the cost of RT tablets by $150 so they now retail at $350. And today is released a new ad that favorably compares the RT tablet to Apple’s iPad.
[aditude-amp id="flyingcarpet" targeting='{"env":"staging","page_type":"article","post_id":781995,"post_type":"story","post_chan":"none","tags":null,"ai":false,"category":"none","all_categories":"mobile,","session":"A"}']Today’s ad is similar to ones Microsoft has released before. The new video shows an iPad and a Surface RT tablet side by side. As the Surface RT shows its features, a voice that sounds like Siri comments that the iPad can’t do that.
For example, when the Surface connects to an external keyboard, “Siri” says, “Oh snap, you have a real keyboard too? This isn’t going to end well for me, is it?”
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