The multi user account would be great (if the kids didn't have their own iPad), however it's a very low trick to show the suggestion of a kid downloading Infinity Blade without any restrictions.
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Microsoft Launches New Anti-iPad Surface 2 Ad Highlighting Kickstand and Multiple Accounts
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I'd love fast user switching on iOS, for multiple family members or on my phone to switch between home and work. I just think it's funny that they undercut that feature by equating it with the freakin kickstand...
WRONG.
Given the limited storage (16GB) do you really want to have 2 lots of iTunes music , what about Apps, different users, different iTunes accounts. Who is allowed to use what App, will they have to be duplicated ?
Do you then allow "admin" accounts, but what extra functionality will that give/remove. Does it give you access to remove someone else's music so you can add/delete, if so what other data ( e.g. iWork documents) do you then get access to, be able to delete without their knowledge. What about reminders, alarms, calendars, email, iCloud ? What happens when its password locked ?
Its not as easy as "just add another account", there are a whole pile of considerations that must also be taken into account to make the device still useable and keeping security high
I don't think anyone at Apple has ever heard of the words 'options'... And if they have, it surely seems like its been banned.
Just take a look at how limited the MacBook pros have become (no removable battery, no swappable ram and questionable SSD drive).
SD Card slot should be implemented, but more important are the software limitations.
But yet the recent patent filing MR reported on mentioned user accounts tied to fingerprint sensor.
Tell that to the stories we see come up here every once in a while about kids spending hundreds or thousands on app and in app purchases off parents' iTunes accounts - and those are just the headline grabbing instances. I'm sure there's many more cases of a kid accidentally charging just $2, $10, $20, or $50 to someones account on a shared iPad or iPhone.
I think that expandable storage and removable batteries are overrated. But to most Android users I know, it is paramount. Its such an important thing, that the ones I know don't even have an SD card or an extra battery. When I ask "Why do you value a removable battery but not have spare?," the response is: "Because I need a way to reset the device when it locks up."
Do the Moto X and Nexus phones have SD cards and removable battery? How about the HTC One?
There's something completely different that these guys don't understand: You don't tell people what is supposedly bad about a competitors product. That doesn't make them want your product. If you want to succeed, you tell them what's good about your product. And even then, you tell them in terms that they understand and that make sense to them.
I find myself in the strange position of defending Microsoft here. I think it's mega-weird of MR to continually call all of Microsoft's efforts to pitch their tablet products as "anti-iPad." Whether you agree with their arguments or not, Microsoft is simply making what they think are favorable comparisons between Apple's product and theirs. When Apple has done this very thing, as they have so many times, it's characterized as feisty competition, not like here, as completely negative.
I will be very surprised if we ever see a Surface 3. If Microsoft were smart, they would have followed Samsung's lead and offered up something that Apple wasn't, i.e. a larger-screen device. There is simply no realistic reason why anyone should buy a Surface instead of an iPad or Android tablet.
That's it. Cup holders. That's what Microsoft needs to succeed. If the Surface comes with a cup holder, then Apple will _never_ catch up with that.
(Confused? Makes about as much sense as these Microsoft adverts... )
Bland, generic, uncreative. Totally misses the mark at the end when they show off Infinity Blade, an incredibly popular game, which isn't even available on the Surface.
Mark Penn's really busy in the bashing department these days. Not only is MS ripping iPads, they're dumping on Chromebooks too.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57613803-71/microsofts-latest-scroogled-ad-chromebooks-a-brick/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57613803-71/microsofts-latest-scroogled-ad-chromebooks-a-brick/
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I think the iPad is outrageously overpriced considering how hard it is to do "real work" on it and you can't even use external batteries or sd cards with it. Before you all argue, I just can't stand it as a content creation tool. Writing with it sucks - even with a keyboard. I really want to like the surface, I love the ideas behind it, but I just don't like Windows 8 and the form factor is terrible. It is great in landscape mode when you have the keyboard and traveling. But the minute I turn it in landscape mode to read a book or something it is heavy, awkward and just not functional, really as a tablet.
I think the iPad is outrageously overpriced considering how hard it is to do "real work" on it and you can't even use external batteries or sd cards with it. Before you all argue, I just can't stand it as a content creation tool. Writing with it sucks - even with a keyboard. I really want to like the surface, I love the ideas behind it, but I just don't like Windows 8 and the form factor is terrible. It is great in landscape mode when you have the keyboard and traveling. But the minute I turn it in landscape mode to read a book or something it is heavy, awkward and just not functional, really as a tablet.