iPad vs Surface: Not even in the same parish

Always amusing to hear the Microsoft Sprukers trying to say that the Surface is outselling the iPad.


Not quite.


iPad sales in 2015: $23 Billion


Surface sale in 2015: $3.6 Billion.

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