41 karma · joined July 7, 2011
I'm part of a company which sells hardware/software/other assorted technology solutions to businesses. That's what we do. We are the technology providers for literally 80% of the businesses in the town we are in.
There is no way we can buy a lot of say 10 Surface Pros and resell them without going through one of the three retail stores (and adding another block of GST + general markup).
Because of that, we can't on sell them to business, users with money won't use them and they'll get barely anywhere.
IPads were originally marketed as fun devices for on-the-go "things", so people were happy to go and buy one for themselves to use personally. Kind of expanded to the point where so many people had them that app developers had the market to go towards businesses. - If the Surface Pro 2 is intended for business at all, it needs to let the people that sell to businesses get their hands on them.
/2c
What am I doing wrong?
Anyone? Yeah sure. Keep thinking that.
Still down in New Zealand, mind you.