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byViol8 ( 599362 ) writes:
"We're dumping RT"
byMightyYar ( 622222 ) writes:
That's sad. "Competition" in this space is now between iOS and Android. It's reminding me of the early 90s in the PC realm, and Commodore just bit the dust.
(I apologize to fans of the Amiga for comparing the Amiga to RT. Don't take the analogy too far...)
byCastrTroy ( 595695 ) writes:
I have a Surface 2 with Windows RT, and even though It's not getting Windows 10, it's still had way more updates than any Android device I've ever had, which is exactly the market it was competing in. I really like it and use it every day. I only wish it had more games, but other than that, it does everything I want out of a tablet. If it continues to be compatible with games made for Windows 10 app store, then that would be a huge plus. It doesn't need to have the entire operating system, just support for
bytriffid_98 ( 899609 ) writes:
I think that RT was kind of a short stop-gap solution to fix the problem of making low(er) cost Windows tablets at a time when running full Windows would have been just too expensive. Not that you can get tablets running full X86 windows for $100-$200, there's much less of a reason to continue on with Windows RT.
I think costs may have been part of it but the bigger issue was battery life. Now that Intel has fully fledged x86 chips that are quite close on power consumption there's no longer any reason to settle for the RT 'port' that still won't run half the software users are expecting to 'just work'.
...the fact that easily 3/4 of these things are rocking 32gb of flash memory certainly isn't helping either. Lets see, we have windows RT, one or two other big applications and...we're out of space. You do have that handy SD slot but that doesn't help because you still can't install apps on it.
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