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Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

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Re: Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

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Post by WildUtah »

readme wrote: post #51

Won't compete with iPad on quality. Won't compete with Android on price. Why should anyone buy this?

Won't compete with iPad on quality. Won't compete with Android on price. Why should anyone buy this?

-Because Microsoft has its slimy tentacles in your corporate IT purchasing process and this is the only tablet they'll buy for you.

-Because it runs the real Microsoft version of Word and Excel and therefore when you share files around the office and they don't show up the same on every machine, you can blame Microsoft instead of catching blame yourself.

-Because Microsoft will pay your company $X0,000 dollars to have you develop a half-baked version of your iOS apps for it.

-Your vision is terrible anyway and you can't even tell that the crappy screen is still a blurry low-res mess.

Re: Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

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Post by Bill_Dimm »

pixie_ wrote: post #28

There are going to be x86 Windows 8 tablets coming out that run all your windows programs ever. A lot of people are going to be pissed and confused about 2 different versions of windows with entirely different sets of compatibility. Also x86 tables will probably cheaper, just like netbooks, just to pour some salt in your wounds you got buying an expensive device that runs no programs.

x86 Windows 8 tablets coming out that run all your windows programs ever

They'll run all of your Windows 8 programs, not all of your Windows programs, since Windows 8 apparently drops some functionality like IFilter.[1] I'm somewhat surprised I haven't seen articles detailing stuff that doesn't work under Windows 8, but maybe I just haven't been paying enough attention.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms691105(v=VS.85).as... "Indexing Service is no longer supported as of Windows XP and is unavailable for use as of Windows 8."

Re: Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

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Post by 27182818284 »

d0m wrote: post #38

Who want this? http://www.microsoft.com/global/en-us/news/publishingimages/...

You haven't been on a college campus recently, have you? Most laptops have some sort of after-market coloring, stickers, or case. Not just PCs, I mean most as in MacBooks too.

Re: Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

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Post by jtoeman »

madoublet wrote: post #88
freehunter wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine if all other car makers said "Oh, the car market is already taken by Ford. We should do something else".

Ha, said much more eloquently than I would. I think it is odd that people are automatically dismissing it simply because it is not an iPad. I guess that is how the hive mind works now-a-days. I like the Surface because it is a genuinely unique OS. And, in many ways it is better than Apple's offering. The gestures are better, it surfaces information better, and it works much better as a productivity device. When has b…

better is rarely enough. the biggest killer of "great" products? ones that are "good enough".

Re: Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

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Post by jtoeman »

freehunter wrote: post #18
jtoeman wrote: post #9

I think this is the nail on the already-likely-dead coffin of MS Surface. What's the market they are going after??? "tablet market"? nope - already dominated by iPad "enterprise"? nope - 1) not a market, 2) already dominated by iPad "budget"? nope - priced on par with iPad seriously, how are they going to push this thing? they don't have a channel like Apple nor Amazon, so they need to rely on all their other paths.…

Imagine if all other car makers said "Oh, the car market is already taken by Ford. We should do something else".

Terrible analogy - there's a proven market for cars.

At this point, it's pretty hard to prove there is a market for non-iPad tablets that aren't e-readers...

Re: Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

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Post by hollerith »

engtech wrote: post #30
cryptoz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they should've called this "XPad" Can't. Apple owns all Pads. http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/13/steve-jobs-apple-owns-pad-tra...

Microsoft could buy Always and re-purpose the Maxi-pad brand.

No because that trademark does not extend to computing devices.

Re: Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

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Post by SpikeDad »

engtech wrote: post #26
nirvana wrote: post #3

I applaud Microsoft for doing something new-- the new windows UI is very original. Further, they have managed to meet Apple in terms of pricing for a comparable iPad, something others have struggled with. But the big take-away innovation here, and the center of their marketing campaign, is that it has a keyboard cover. This seems to be about 5 years out of sync. 5 years ago, everyone expected the iPhone to fail becau…

The ipad software keyboard is hard to use for any length of time because you have to switch between several virtual layouts to hit every key. It slows you down if you're writing code instead of English words. Having punctuation characters hidden away probably reduces the overall complexity of people's passwords as well. I strongly suspect that people switch to alphanumeric-only passwords for anything they would enter…

Typical post of an outlier who thinks they are the typical user targeted by Apple. If anyone thinks that Apple designed the keyboard and neglected to optimize it for people writing code is a dope.

I'll put the people that would never buy anything without an SD or MicroSD card slot. Again, useful but to a very small and select group of users.

I wish people here (supposedly smart and intelligent folks) would have the common sense to put themselves into the shoes of a TYPICAL user and make their comments relevant to that viewport.

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