Even Microsoft knows that Apple have great resale value, compared to any other manufacturer even the glass and aluminum material value is noteworthy. Telling enough that they won’t buy back their own products.

So the thieves can combine them with $1200 of their own money to get a Surface?

... don’t pretend that the Surface line isn’t selling well and point to that as proof it isn’t desired by the market.

Apple has said years ago that they tried it and doesn’t work well on upright screens. That’s what iPad Pro are for.

DON’T YOU TOUCH MY SCREEN WITH YOUR GREASY FINGERS!

As a designer who uses Adobe creative suite and MS office suite on a daily basis, I ditched my surface pro 3 for a MacBook Pro within a month. It’s not the hardware, it’s the software. Illustrator was abysmal to use on the Surface pro. They nerfed the interface to make it play nicely with a tiny screen. I found myself…

Surface revenue is up 38% YoY, and is at almost a billion dollars in sales. It’s not iPhone money, but give Microsoft some credit, it’s a real business for them, and it’s getting bigger.

No. Why would you need such a thing on a laptop? I think the somewhat tepid sales of Microsoft’s surface shows it’s not as big a feature as their marketing might lead you to believe.