[citation][nom]shafe88[/nom]Even if they drop the price by 38% I'm still not buying one. The Rt tablet is not worth the money, for the same price I can get a decent touch screen notebook for the same price with better spec's, and if they do cut the price by 38%, where does the loss in profit come from, do they reduce production cost or do they make up the losses is their app store.[/citation]
I believe the stores would be the ones taking losses primarily; Microsoft's losses would come from inventory they already built that stores didn't buy at the original price, and refuse to buy without incentives. The discounts on the playbook were from over-production, once they hit those levels of discount they were essentially just trying to get rid of the ones they had, and weren't mass producing anymore.