Badstroller

slurpy said:

Badstroller said:

"Struggling product" Who wrote this? Surface products are selling like hotcakes. Your example of how Surface failed was Surface RT. Yes, RT was an objective failure, however the x86 implementations of Surface have been resounding commercial successes. The fact that you use this as an example shows that you are either hideously biased, or don't know what you're writing about. Plus you're going to quote NFL players and coaches on technology issues? What do they know? If it's a network or server issue the same thing would happen with any device. If you're not going to be objective or knowledgeable, don't be a journalist.

Do you have a SHRED of evidence for anything you've just said? Selling like hotcakes you say? Ok, provide us some sales figures for this "resounding commercial success". Cause I haven't seen any. I know you're a microsoft shill, but stop being full of shit. 

There you go. http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/23/8484267/microsoft-earnings-report-q3-2015. They recorded 713M in revenue for the surface line in Q3 2015. Sure, they aren't "apple" revenue numbers, but no one has "apple" revenue numbers besides apple. The surface line might not sell as well as iPad, but it definitely isn't struggling. Quit flinging around insults, I find it very hard to take you seriously if you have to result to calling me a "shill" and "full of shit". 

ericthehalfbee said:

tezgno said:

While I can understand bashing the competition... unfortunately, this issue can't be blamed on the Microsoft Surface (or Microsoft at all). As has been reported on (and confirmed by) the NFL before, the issue has nothing to do with the Surface. Rather, it's the NFL's servers and application that went down (hence why it goes down across multiple teams at the same time). The tablet runs an application that connects to NFL servers and pulls in data including pictures, replay information, etc. It is that system that has been going down recently. To be honest, while Microsoft has paid a large sum of money for their tablets to be shown and used, the entire process is technically platform agnostic. They can run the application on anything. Unfortunately, it wouldn't matter which tablet they chose in these cases... if their servers are down, then there is nothing that can be done.

Have you seen ANY of the Surface NFL ads? I don't recall EVER seeing any mention of servers or backend systems. The Surface tablet is front & centre in all of them. Nobody cares about where the problem is - they only remember seeing those tablets in the bright blue cases.


ON another note.....

Looks like two POS loser trolls ALREADY signed up with new accounts. Any predictions how many more will show up shilling for MS?

Why in the world would they advertise the backend? Literally no one would do that. The NFL uses Rackspace as their backend so the backend is probably Linux anyways. Don't call me a POS loser troll. I have the utmost respect for Apple. They are a titan in the tech industry and are the most valuable company in the world. I love the fact that OSX is Unix based and posix-compliant, it really is an impressive operating system. The thing I take issue with is the fact that this article is chalked full of misguided oversimplifications. I have no problem with people who love apple products, I admit they have a certain sex appeal that you just don't get from other devices, I just don't like when sites that are devoted to technology really just overlook the technical aspect and go straight to mud slinging. But go ahead and throw more vitriol my way if you feel you must, I will not resort to name calling and religious-like zealousy about silicon and glass.

genovelle said:

The 6 surface owners clearly showed up on this site to come to their defense. Selling like hotcakes?!

Yes. They had ~4 billion dollars in revenue last year from the Surface line. I admit that those aren't "Apple-like" revenues, but they are impressive nonetheless.

"Struggling product" Who wrote this? Surface products are selling like hotcakes. Your example of how Surface failed was Surface RT. Yes, RT was an objective failure, however the x86 implementations of Surface have been resounding commercial successes. The fact that you use this as an example shows that you are either hideously biased, or don't know what you're writing about. Plus you're going to quote NFL players and coaches on technology issues? What do they know? If it's a network or server issue the same thing would happen with any device. If you're not going to be objective or knowledgeable, don't be a journalist.