Surface Pro 3 is only good for one target market: designers.
For everyone else a laptop is better, and a more unified product without moving parts. Surface is also too expensive if you want a decent amount of storage. 40GB of free storage for $930 as a "laptop replacement" is unacceptable. Most people would be much better served than say a $900 Macbook Air.
So from this point of view, the author is right. Surface has been and continues to be a big failure for Microsoft, no matter how well it is designed and made. It doesn't win Microsoft anything other than a very small niche of people who like to design with styluses.
For everyone else a laptop is better, and a more unified product without moving parts. Surface is also too expensive if you want a decent amount of storage. 40GB of free storage for $930 as a "laptop replacement" is unacceptable. Most people would be much better served than say a $900 Macbook Air.
So from this point of view, the author is right. Surface has been and continues to be a big failure for Microsoft, no matter how well it is designed and made. It doesn't win Microsoft anything other than a very small niche of people who like to design with styluses.