It's a tablet showdown: The Kindle Fire HDX, iPad Mini 2 and Microsoft Surface 2 will all be released this fall.
The Kindle Fire will debut its new Mayday feature and the iPad Mini is rumored to come in gold and with fingerprint technology (like the iPhone 5S), but the Microsoft Surface seems confused, says Yahoo Finance tech reporter Aaron Pressman. While other tablets are coming of age it appears that the Surface is stuck in its awkward stage.
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Pressman doesn't think the lackluster projected sales of the Surface 2 even have much to do with the product itself- the Surface 2 actually got pretty decent reviews. Instead Pressman believes the issue lies with Microsoft's confusion over what they want the Surface to be.
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"Microsoft's new commercial has the new high-end expensive Surface Pro and their low-end cheaper Surface that's like an iPad in the same
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