Tom Warren
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's, it's always been the trouble with, with exports, like the, the way it was first, you know, even the way it started initially was an incubation project, right?
So, um, and trying to put a, a, you know, windows in, in delivery essentially.
It's, it's always been this weird thing at exports, but I think they've had the realization, um, over the past year or so that this is their last sort of major consumer facing brand, right?
It's still got a foot in the consumer side, but it's still primarily they're selling those devices to businesses, to be honest.
There's that realization that they need to not be so focused on the margins, which has caused them to do weird things over the past couple of years, and sort of return of Xbox.
obviously xbox is always it's xbox is always back you know what i mean like it's somehow it's always coming back i don't know where it went there's this meme from the xbox fans it's like a graph and it's like this and it's like we're so back and then we're doomed we're so back that's exactly right that's yeah that's xbox
Yeah, I was quite surprised to see them do both of these devices.
I think we kind of assumed they'd do a laptop, right, when all the rumors have been really as AI chips.
So, yeah, I played around with the Laptop Ultra, and it is pretty much a 16-inch MacBook Pro.
You know, like it's...
It is a MacBook Pro, and you know that they've done like the Surface Book in the past with the detachable display.
They've done the laptop studio where it kind of lays flat into like a tablet.
They've done all these quirky things, but it looks like they're just kind of going back to the laptop formula because that works.
But I think the most curious thing about them is who they're targeting, right?
They're really going for developers and creators with these, which they kind of tried a little bit with Windows 10 Creators Update.
They briefly sort of skirted with that.
But this seems like a good time to have these sort of devices, I think.
I think they struck almost the perfect time.