orcishgamer: I think you'll find when you subtract the Kindle Fire from the Android numbers that Android's tablet market share drops to the single digits and looks like the ass that it actually is. Really, most Android tablets really are vastly inferior. Even the Fire leverages Amazon's cloud infrastructure to speed up browsing (much of the Javascript, etc. is executed on their intermediary servers). The Fire leverages a niche that Amazon already had wide open, a low cost, color eReader, they sold Fire to their existing fans, even though it's not eInk and is back lit, people ate it up. But the Fire is literally the only Android tablet that has any market penetration whatsoever (unless something has happened in the last 6 months that I've somehow missed).
Anyone who says the Surface will be a failure shouldn't be listened to, they may end up being correct, but it'll end up being nothing more than happy circumstance, the hardware could be solid, even good, the design certainly is. That thing could be a serious seller. Don't mistake this for another Kin, you can tell when MS actually puts their minds to something, there's a difference, Surface is one of those.
With that all said, yeah, I don't see GOG doing RT if it's even a hint of DRM, that's not what they're about and frankly we've got piles of machines on which to play our games already. The primary buyers of these games aren't probably looking at retro first and the ones that are are more likely to be picking up stuff like the new BG remake, which is really simply targeting mobile (because the PC version is laughably overpriced shit).
Kindle does account for about half of the Android tablets out there, leaving about 15% of the entire tablet market to other Android devices. That is likely to change significantly when the Google tablet finally releases. Pre-orders of that machine recently had to be shut down because demand was so high for it. The Kindle does have the
option of using Amazon's cloud, but testing shows that actually creates slower browsing, not faster browsing. That option was the very first thing I disabled when I bought a Kindle and I have not regretted it in the slightest. I am most certainly not a "Amazon fan", I actually had never used any of their services prior to buying a Kindle (seriously, never once). I only bought a Kindle because after researching my options, it was the best bang for my buck. It was not a ridiculously over-priced status symbol like the iPad, nor was it a functionality limited cheap clone like many other Android devices. I could not be happier with the device or its capabilities. It does everything I need or want it to, plus more. I was most impressed by the quality of the games available for it. I expected little more than Angry Birds and its ilk (which it certainly does have plenty of), but what I found were games that were at least PS2/Wii quality in their graphical performance and depth. My only relatively minor complaint is the lack of expandable storage, but, Amazon was trying to push their cloud storage service, so I do understand why they decided to leave that out. So far, the lack of storage flexibility hasn't really hurt me, it just would be nice to be able to throw in a micro SD card if I wanted to. Interestingly, reports indicate the Fire 2 will not only have expandable storage, but will also come in multiple screen sizes.
I have no opinion on the Surface myself, I haven't seen enough of it to formulate one, nor do I think any of the tech pundits have. I would agree that anyone pre-emptively calling a failure is an idiot. However, looking at Microsoft's published requirements for Windows RT, the Surface could end up being the one and only device that makes use of it. Requiring specific design elements like 5 physical buttons for functions like volume control and rotation lock just seems like a step backwards for tablets and I certainly don't see many tablet manufacturers lining up to jump on the RT bandwagon.
