“November was our best month ever for consumer Surface sales”.
If latest reports are to be believed, the alleged design of the Microsoft Surface Phone has surface on the Internet and everyone is busy finding out more about it.
The Microsoft Surface Pro 4.MicrosoftThat said, Microsoft did not disclose specific unit sales for Surface PCs over the period, per usual. Microsoft still isn’t providing sales numbers, but the company claims “more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before”.
Microsoft is having a successful holiday season, thanks in part to Apple’s MacBook Pro, the company said in a blog post on Monday.
Last month, Daniel Goncalves, a research analyst from IDC Western European Personal Computing, mentioned that the success of Microsoft Surface Pro and iPad Pro comes from being a notebook replacement and the quality it has to offer.
It also announced a deal wherein, anyone in the US could barter their old MacBook Air or MacBook Pro at the Microsoft Store (retail or online) for up to $650 off the purchase of a new Surface Pro or Surface Book. The firm said that Surface sales enjoyed their biggest numbers ever in November, staying strong both sides of the Atlantic, with the “best single week” ever recorded in the United Kingdom, and the Surface bundle which was exclusive to Best Buy in the U.S. selling out on day one. The momentum was seen worldwide.
The results were similar around the world, where Microsoft saw the best week of Surface sales yet in the United Kingdom and the Surface Pen topped Amazon’s PC accessories best seller list for 12 hours in Germany. This means audio output could be delivered via USB Type-C ports, similar to Apple iPhone 7 and rumored to be the same with Samsung Galaxy S8. That two year-old devices from Microsoft are suddenly better than brand-new devices from Apple says more, I think, about what Apple just did than what Microsoft did a year earlier. According to the researcher, the first five days of US sales for the product made more than seven times the revenue of the 12-inch MacBook during its launch and 82 per cent of all its revenue since. It’s also unclear what metric Microsoft is using to call the MacBook Pro a “disappointment”.
And you know what? In the United Kingdom, the best single week ever was observed.
It is reported that Microsoft made Surface devices are indeed the toughest competitors for the tech giants like the Apple, Samsung, Sony and others.
Hey, we can dream.