Posted on 12/11/2014 9:23:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The author doesn’t seem capable of understanding what removable storage is for by business people hence why it matters so much.
I will have to dismiss most of this article based on that paucity of understanding.
Surface Pro 3 is great! I use at as a powerful little laptop but also as a tablet to read documents, pdfs, etc so I don’t need to carry around my books. I recommend it to all!
I miss the TV adverts with young hipsters dancing on tables and clicking keyboards with their Surface tablets. </sarc>
shouldn’t this be posted in the Religion forum?
RE: I miss the TV adverts with young hipsters dancing on tables and clicking keyboards with their Surface tablets. </sarc>
The latest one for Christmas is just as annoying with several people singing (badly) WINTER WONDERLAND ( with different words extolling the virtues of the Surface Pro ).
The hardware is straightforward but the OS changes are probably a tall order, which is why we haven't seen such a device yet.
I think Apple slowly is trying to merge iOS and OS/X, and then it will happen.
While not feature-complete (that won't be until around mid-spring 2015), Windows 10's basic emphasis on the Desktop user interface means people now running Windows 7 or earlier can migrate to Windows 10 much easier.
Apple has its head up its collective arse. The shortcomings of the iPad are evident. Wouldn’t be hard at all to have a full-fledged word editor and other features commonly found on laptops. It would not have hurt them to add removable/upgradable memory either.
Let Apple learn, or perish
“The iPad is focused on leapfrogging over legacy PCs and into the future. That’s why it eschews the microSD card readers and USB ports that can be found on the Surface. “
No, the reason that the iPad doesn’t have USB ports and micro SD card readers is that Apple sucks, and would rather force its customers to pay extra cash for add-on accessories to provide these basic functions.
Apple is slowly sinking into the quicksand as more and more consumers are tiring of their high prices, constant forced OS upgrades and purposely inflexible products. I have a MacBook from 2007 that still works fine while I’ve had countless technical problems with a more recently purchase MacBook Pro and iphone. Broken CD drives, noisy fans, broken switches and on and on.
Charging premium prices for shoddy gear is not a sound long-term strategy for any company.
After all of the tech blogs screamed about hating OSs “designed for touch”, and not wanting all of that app junk on a real computer.
Apple themselves had said they think the idea of a touch OS hybrid like Windows was a stupid idea.
Apple’s fans ran around for months mocking the Surface for every reason under the sun.
But in the usual fashion, Apple will now rush the same thing to the market, and all of their fans will say that Apple waited so that it can be “done right”.
Did Apple learn nothing from Windows 8?
The surface also has a really high degrés of accuracy in handwriting recognition. That is more useful in mamy ways Than its keyboard.
LOL!!
“Apple recently revealed the product of its secret-development “dream team” — Apple Watch. The secret is out, and some early viewers are claiming its everyday impact could trump the iPod, iPhone, and the iPad.”
Just their usual tech blog sycophants, and firms that love to talk up Apple stock. The same people that Apple reaches out to be their cheerleaders masking as supposedly objective journalist because they dont want to lose their access to Apple’s products.
People that will actually pay over 300 dollars for a watch of dubious usefulness? I doubt it.
I bought an iPad when they were first released a few years ago. I’m just NOW thinking of getting a new one.
ALL of the versions between then and now didn’t offer enough of a difference from the original that I bought to justify/compel me to pay $800-$900 for another one. I’m contemplating a Samsung Tablet, given how well one would integrate with my home theater system(all Samsung hardware).
The real reason - The Surface is a real, full function PC capable of being a business-ready machine. The iPad is a media consumption device.
I don’t personally get the attraction of a watch doing more than a good Timex watch. Everything else, I can use my cell phone.
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