Well I don't want Samsung in the US so FINE!
Windows RT isn't an overnight success and won't be, not until there's a decent app collection of the big names can it be totally considered a viable alternative to ios or android. Having said that, I'd still buy a Windows RT powered tablet over said competition. Right now, the target demographic of RT tablets are the people who already have a PC, but are looking into a tablet and seeing how limited an ipad is and iffy android is. Windows RT fits perfectly for the person that has some phablet needs, but other needs as well that the others don't fulfill. It also is for the high school/college student and casual user who generally will use a PC for Office software and printing. It does well for both.
Problem is however, OEMs. Six hundred dollars for a tablet running RT, 100 dollars more for a keyboard dock is a bit preposterous, may as well chuck a 100 dollars more and buy a Surface Pro or other PC. I just don't totally understand how an android tablet can go for 3-400 dollars with decent specs, but when RT gets loaded on it, the price is at least 600. The Surface RT is the least expensive RT tablet at 500, but the problem there is the distribution and the early lack of. What's also concerning is, that a company like Acer known for budget PCs, can't build a sub 500 dollar RT tablet. What the crap?
I have a feeling that Windows RT won't be hitting mainstream until a year from now when OEMs SOMEHOW get their crap together, or when the Surface RT is more flooded into the market, or when the use of Windows RT is better defined because as I see it, it's not well defined. It's not a dog of an OS, it has definitive use and works on the ARM platform that may or may not be taking off big time in the years to come.
Then again, the notion that netbooks and their 2-300 dollar prices did really gouge the PC market in such a way that a PC that can't run itunes on a 600 dollar device isn't worth it. Which brings up another question, why the bullocks are Atom based tablet PCs priced so high as well? I again, don't get how difficult it would be to take those old netbook motherboards, make a new chassis, and slap a 5-point touch screen on it and sell it for 400 dollars.