Yes, you are on mark with your commentary but it is also an ‘awesome’ device meaning people are attracted to its table in electronic stores for longer periods of time than iOS or Android devices, and that attraction ends up forming a line or a moving backdrop of people who keep coming back to see if they can squeeze in.
Nokia smartphones which Microsoft now owns are also ‘awesome’ and their camera capabilities are show-stoppers. Nothing even comes close to their dazzling features and capabilities.
And all the devices and computers sync up quickly and effortlessly.
My 8-year old could not get enough of the Surface Pro 3 stylus. I have never thought in my life to think of using a stylus until I saw the Surface Pro 3 stylus. It is amazing in the sense that it can do things on the Surface Pro 3 touchscreen that are actually of great utility to users as well as graphics artists. The Surface Pro 3 is a winner, no doubt about it.
And I have bothered to peek ahead and see what’s coming. Windows 10 is going to be a sure winner as well. The new CEO of Microsoft has his head screwed on right and the whole company is now functioning to give the user a pleasant and great experience without new shocks to their existing habits. They really have turned a corner.
“... give the user a pleasant and great experience without new shocks to their existing habits.”
Now you just nailed a serious problem that I’ve been coming across since Windows 8 came out.
I use Windows 7 on my laptop and that’s what my mom had. She is technologically illiterate and it has been a serious struggle to get her on board. (Terms like ‘mouse’ and ‘desktop’ are nonstarters for her.)
With every FREAKING change to technology, she gets farther behind. Right now, she has no email because her live account did security updates months ago and she couldn’t navigate that. She can’t sign up for a NEW freaking account because she cannot understand the ‘needs two symbols, two letters, two numbers, and the blood of a virgin’ BS and she cannot get it over the phone. (We’re on opposite sides of the continent, so I can only help her over the phone.)
As security becomes more complicated, technology is leaving a MASSIVE group behind. I intentionally didn’t upgrade to Windows 8 because there would be no way for me to mirror her movements of we were using different OS.
The horrible thing is that now she needs a new computer and all she has available is Windows 8 and I don’t have it to help her. So she has a sputtering computer (that MIGHT actually work fine if she would trust me and actually RESTART it... she STILL believes that she’s restarted it by turning the monitor off and on... *sigh*)
Worse - I’m not a total moron and each leap is starting to leave me behind. In about ten years, I’ll be just as confused as she is now.
These tech-heads simply cannot understand that the low-level user (most of us) are simply not that invested. We need a SIMPLE, CONSISTENT user-interface that we can rely on for the long run.
Dammit.
Whoever invents the Jitterbug OS for seniors will be rich.