Latest trending topics being covered on ZDNet including Reviews, Tech Industry, Security, Hardware, Apple, and Windows.Microsoft Surface vs Apple i. Pad, Mac. It's hard to escape the media pronouncements that i. Phones are now boring again after Samsung unveiled its latest Galaxy S8, Apple's Mac business is being overshadowed by more exciting Surface Windows PCs from Microsoft and that Apple Watch is a disappointing dud. But they're all wrong, here's why. This second segment in a series takes a look at real data, with enough historical context to accurately see what's occurring in the Pre- Mobile PC and Post- PC Mobile and Wearables markets. Unbiased professional product reviews of TVs, laptops, cell phones, and more by reviewers who speak your language. Reality bears little correlation with media narratives that suggest doom for Apple and portray its hardware and software rivals as quickly catching up. Virtually every element in the common media narratives hyping 1) Samsung's scrappy underdog rivalry with i. Phone, 2) Microsoft's growing Surface threat to Macs or i. Pads and 3) the minor relevance and impact of Apple Watch is purely false. It's not only illuminating to see the truth, but also revealing to see what lies are being passed around as fact. Consider the reality of Microsoft Surface and its true market position relative to Apple's PC business- -in stark contrast to the way the company is portrayed in media narratives. Is Microsoft serious about PC hardware? In parallel with Samsung discovering that the secret to selling smartphones was to copy Apple's software as closely as possible, Microsoft did the same thing, in reverse. Using its own software, it began copying Apple's hardware business as closely as it could- -which, admittedly, wasn't very close. Abandoning its entire history as a software apps, tools and platform vendor, Microsoft first attempted to copy Apple's integrated hardware model on the i. Pod with its Zune (above left) in 2. It attempted to build the KIN in 2. Phone. It announced plans to take on the i. Pad by creating a light, thin tablet design with the same ARM architecture Apple used, under the Surface RT brand (above right) starting in 2. In 2. 01. 4 it acquired Nokia's phone business to more directly take on i. Phone using its Windows Phone Lumia brand. While Samsung's software- related problems have blunted its ability to profit from the devices it sells in high volumes, Microsoft's hardware problems have prevented it from selling enough devices to matter. While Samsung's software- related problems have blunted its ability to profit from the devices it sells in high volumes, Microsoft's hardware problems have prevented it from selling enough devices to matter, in one market after the next. Microsoft's independent software and cloud services continue to generate high revenues, but not enough to warrant continued development of its hardware initiatives that were not gaining traction. Despite pronouncements that it was "in for the long haul" with Zune, Microsoft terminated the effort in 2. Surface RT was discontinued after four years, while Lumia was dumped after two years of Microsoft buying it. KIN didn't last two months. Microsoft also began selling an Intel x. PC tablet branded as Surface Pro, which has survived. Now in its fourth generation, the Surface Pro has been paired with an even more expensive Surface Book notebook and a convertible huge- tablet/desktop PC called Surface Studio. Reviews have been more than kind. In fact, Microsoft's ability to create new form factors has kicked off a torrent of media praise that, similar to Samsung's, is mostly appreciative of the excitement value provided by its efforts rather than its potential for commercial success. Pads down. When you look at this chart (below) comparing the hardware sales of Apple and Microsoft, the first thing that jumps out is how dramatically i. Pad revenues have fallen, at least its sales during the winter quarters (the December western holiday quarter and the following March quarter of China's Lunar New Year festivities). The drop coincided with the launch of larger new i. Phone 6 models, which pulled in $2. It's speculation to say that Apple purposely pushed i. Pad users to buy i. Phone 6 Plus to arrest the slide in i. Pad ASP, which had fallen from around $6. But whether intentional or not, the shift in sales was a fortunate occurrence. Apple certainly prefers to sell users i. Phones at an ASP closer to $7. Pad would be. For i. Pad buyers who want a full tablet i. OS device, Apple developed i. Pad Pro, released in 2. Surface up. No correlation. We definitely do know that those "missing" i. Pad buyers didn't run out and get Surface Pro machines to run the Full Windows. Microsoft simply hasn't sold enough of them. Across nearly five years, Microsoft has only sold about 1. Across 1. 6 quarters, that's only about a million per quarter. At its peak, Apple was selling more than 1. Pads every quarter, consistently for two years. A very false narrative: Microsoft Surface vs Apple iPad, Mac. By Daniel Eran Dilger Thursday, April 27, 2017, 01:36 pm PT (04:36 pm ET) It's hard to escape the media. · iPod Touch. To perform an iPod Touch hard reset, start by turning the iPod Touch on. Press and hold down the sleep/wake button until you see the Apple. Apple's rapid sales of i. Pads created an installed base of about 3. So while i. Pad is "down dramatically" and Surface is in certain quarters "up" compared to its previous performance, i. Pad is still leading global sales of tablets and servicing a large installed base, while Surface is barely moving units. Microsoft's Surface business isn't really growing. Like Apple's Mac and i. Pad sales, Microsoft's Surface sales are more cyclical than typical commodity PC or phone sales, peaking in the holiday quarter. Unlike Apple's sales, Microsoft Surface hardware revenues (blue) have only hovered around $1 billion quarterly since it launched, with its two best quarters hitting $1. Compared to Apple's $5 to $7 billion quarterly Mac revenues (gold), that's not much. Alternatively, it's not much compared to i. Pad sales, which have ranged between $4 and $9 billion per quarter (green). However, Surface straddles the business of both, making the really fair comparison Apple's total Mac and i. Pad businesses together. Surface revenue not only pales in comparison to Apple's hardware, but its best quarterly performance has still remained $1 billion shy of the $2. Windows Phone hit back in 2. Remember what a great business Windows Lumia phones were? Apple's Other Products scratch the Surface. Now look at Apple's "Other Products," a segment that is mostly Apple Watch, Apple TV, i. Pods and Beats. It's not only consistently generating about double the revenues of Surface, but it's also building in a cycle, peaking at over $4 billion in both of the last two winter quarters- -more than three times the best performance Surface has achieved. Apple doesn't separate the figures itself, but Canalys estimates for Apple Watch revenue in the winter quarter highlight that Apple's wearable was a much larger business ($2. Surface PC offerings of Microsoft ($1. Apple Watch is supposedly a minor niche device looking for a market, while Surface is billed as a really popular and exciting business that's turning heads and concerning competitors. Both of those narratives are wildly wrong. The other obvious difference between Apple Watch and Surface is that since their quarterly launch peaks in 2. Apple's quarterly Watch revenue has grown by more than $1 billion, while Surface revenue has shrunk by $5. Apple Watch is currently only on its second generation, while Surface is approaching its fifth. Since its debut in 2. Microsoft's Surface revenues have not even exceeded Apple's Mac revenues from their most anemic, beleaguered points in the mid- 1. That's a pretty poor trajectory emerging for Microsoft's future vision of the conventional PC- -a product category one might expect to generate more revenue vs. Since its debut in 2. Microsoft's Surface revenues have not even exceeded Apple's Mac revenues from their most anemic, beleaguered points in the mid- 1. Apple was written off as a collapsing corporate corpse. 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