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Well the Microsoft Surface had to be killed so they could reuse the name.

Really though, I think it's a hard product to get good enough to sell. You'd need to do a lot of polishing, but it's going to be expensive and have low sales, so it's hard to recoup the r&d. And no matter how much you spend, I think you still end up with different visual impact of looking at a screen vs looking at a board on a table. I bet there's some really nice experiences possible though. Setup and cleanup would likely be way faster.



There seem to be quite a few models of 55"+ 4K touchscreen available (for thousands of dollars), so I think that product type is still available. It's the middle sizes that are missing; I've been waiting for years to upgrade my 24" 1080p Dell touchscreen to 32" 4K or similar, and if that existed for less than say double the 24" price I'd probably buy several.




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