Sales of tablets running the operating system Windows 8.1 do not hold up to 20-30% of the expected level. The situation does not save even a successful balance of cost and performance of such products: ASUS, for example, recently released a tablet Transformer Book T100, which can be purchased for $ 350 (32 GB) or $ 400 (64 GB).
Associate believe that the weak demand associated with strong competition not only from tablets running the operating system Android, but also by personal computers. Many of these things are lost in value after the release of Windows 8.1. Thus, tablets running Windows 8.1 are facing the same problems as their predecessors.
This situation can lead to the formation of surplus production in early 2014. For this reason, many sellers expect from major manufacturers follow the order to reset the price of tablets running Windows 8.1 by up to 20% at the beginning of the traditional sales season.