Hmmm. Let's do a test. Take a bunch of 2-3 year olds. How many of them can pick up an iPad and start doing stuff with it almost immediately? When that happens with the Surface (if ever) let me know.
Well, I don't think MS really cares how a 2-3 year old handles a surface. Probably because they don't have money.
The biggest market for Surface "is business usage for productivity and integration with business enterprise systems?" That's kind of what they were saying about BB a few years ago, wasn't it? Look where that got them.
Big difference between a Phone and a Surface Pro.
The Surface RT device is going to integrate? To what?
The surface RT will be more aimed at the consumer/non power user. Not business.
The Surface Pro can run desktop software, but with a battery life of less than 5 hours (rumors have it at that) who is going to buy it? Why not stick to an Ultrabook or Air?
Well, we don't know what the battery life will be yet. We'll have to see. And why? because its more versatile than an Ultrabook. Its very much like the early convertible tablets from the early 2000s
Plus, when your hit your 5 hours, just plug the damn thing in, if its in keyboard mode its most likely on a tablet anyway.
I guess all 50-100 million of us, as well as most Fortune 500 companies, will simply give up their "remedial appliance" once something comes out with a MS label on it. I don't think so.
How many of those iPads are seriously used in business? I think a vast majority of them are not.
Why would large enterprise be interested in the surface pro? It has the advantages of a tablet, and an ultra book. And unlike an iPad, it can run X86 Windows Programs, Windows Dominates Enterprise and business, and many many many companies have in house programs that run on X86 and Windows, its MUCH cheaper for them to buy a machine that can already run all of these programs, than to recompile and redo all of these programs.
The Pro isn't targeting the basic consumer, its targeting business and power users. As far as power goes, it blows away the iPad.
The vast majority of us use our devices to surf the web, read, listen to music, watch video, or interact with Facebook or Twitter. It's also nice to have an enormous app ecosystem that gives us an app for basically anything we want.
Some people do more things with hardware than go on FailBook or ******* ( seriously, Social Media is so stupid, network in real life people ). And For me? Apples software selection is...small. Compared to the Windows side.
And lots of us Power Users want a tablet that not only has legacy compatibility, and tons of power under the hood, we want an eco system full of software that is FAR, FAR larger than Apples. And the Windows Software Library is MUCH larger than Apples. ( This should make sense, Windows has been the most popular OS for about 20 years now )
Corporate IT guys finally realize (through their own use) the potential, and many, many corporate IT app solutions are already out there. And they work pretty darn well integrating with the corporate enterprise. Kind of reminds me of how the iPhone works pretty darn well with Exchange server and BB server.
Some of them realize this, and lots of them realize the iPad also doesn't work in alot of enterprise situations, thats the point of the surface pro, it will be plug and play.
Why change for an iPad? When the surface is plug and play? And has better hardware, and a keyboard?
Another big problem with Apple in Enterprise? Apple only supports their hardware for 3-4 years before your pretty much forced to upgrade. And no, business's don't tend to replace hardware that quickly, you see so many generic dell boxes going on 5-7 sometimes even older in some places, they don't tend to replace hardware until its no longer supported, or fails. Which on the Windows Side is great, but doesn't exist on a the Apple side.
Lets see where we are one year from now. My money is that is won't be pretty for MS.
I heard people say that about Windows 2000, for adding " useless features ", I heard people say, Windows XP will be the death of Microsoft, and I heard people say the XBOX would be a complete failure.
How well did that go again?