>>>>>>>>By "apparently short-lived paradigm" do you mean tablets?
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>>>>>>Yes. Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie doesn't think tablets will last.
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>>>>>It sure doesn't look that way to me. The iPad has been a runaway success, and now a million competitors are joining the fray. If they don't last there will have been a lot of manufacturers who were wrong.
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>>>>>Not to be cynical or anything but maybe Microsoft/Mundie have selfish reasons for pooh poohing the category. They don't really have a horse in the race, do they? Caught flat footed by Apple yet again.
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>>>>Yep they sure were.... how dare they come up with a natural body motion sensor that has applications in far more fields than time-wasting. The Kinnect is phenomenal and will usher in a new era of games, business and scientific applications as they hone the technology. Just imagine a surgeon controlling an operational robot simply by moving his hands and fingers in the air.... I think they caught apple in the headlights...
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>>>That does sound intribuing. Not a tablet, though, which is what was being discussed.
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>>You made a blanket statement: "Caught flat footed by Apple yet again." I just pointed out where MS is choosing to innovate in areas that matter....
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>Kinda like Nintendo when they put the idea in production before any of the major players including Microsoft.

But did Nintendo make the Guinness World Record by selling 10 million so fast?

http://mashable.com/2011/03/09/kinect-10-million/

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During the first three months after its launch, this rate was fast enough to earn Kinect the title of “fastest-selling consumer device.” According to Guinness World Records, which officially confirmed the record today, Microsoft sold an average of 133,333 units per day between November 4 and January 3.