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Microsoft Releases Fourth Anti-iPad Ad Highlighting Windows 8 Multitasking Capabilities

I've always thought that when you show your competitor's product in your own advertising, you're already beat.
 
The ad makes its point very effectively.

The iPad is crippled by the simplistic iOS compared to a tablet with a regular OS.
 
iGrip said:
The ad makes its point very effectively.

The iPad is crippled by the simplistic iOS compared to a tablet with a regular OS.
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"Crippled"? Users are not stupid - they don't expect Mac OS X on the thing, lol.

"Simple" is very different to "simplistic". If you want fiddly, you can always go for "the other" choice :p
 
Oh boy... another MS vs. Apple thread. Gee, I wonder what kind of comments will get upvoted? Some of you guys crack me up. :D

Carry on... I have socks to sort.
 
robjulo said:
Let me guess, somehow you can justify in your mind the Mac vs PC ads were somehow different.
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OK, while I don't buy into parish's pre mist that "if a company has to resort to slagging off the competition to promote its products, it usually means that their products aren't very good" I DO think the Mac vs PC ads were different. I wasn't a Mac user at the time and they didn't affect my buying decisions, but I really liked the ads. They were kind of like two friends arguing over their favourite sports team or beer. The affection between the two characters was clear.
 
HiRez said:
I haven't used a Surface yet, but I've used Windows 8, and Jesus, what a disaster that is. If that's what to expect, I don't want to multitask anything, I would wedge the thing under a door somewhere.
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Windows 8 on a PC is utter garbage. Windows 8 on a Surface is really quite nice though - it feels like it's miles ahead of iOS. But it doesn't transition to using a mouse and keyboard very well.
 
ryanasimov said:
I've always thought that when you show your competitor's product in your own advertising, you're already beat.
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You mean like when Apple did nothing but feature Windows in their ads?

Good lord you people can't see the forest for the trees. The ad highlights the fact that you can easily do two things at once on windows tabs, and you guys whine saying things like "the human brain can only focus on one thing at once anyway". "Bad example, he would've looked up this info beforehand if he was a good scout". If Apple had this feature and Windows didn't I can't even imagine the drooling we would see on this site.

Seriously? Are you people that dense? It's a good ad, and it shows a nice feature that the iPad, in it's current state CAN NOT do, get over it.

Sometimes I don't even know why I bother reading the comments..
 
I don't mind not multitasking on iPad, because many apps on iPad can do multitasking in the first place.

I do mind not having multitasking on tablets of other platforms because most of them have crap apps and will never do multitasking properly unless you open multiple apps at the same time.

And for the FaceTime thing, yeah, why would I ever want to use FaceTime on a only-wifi-equipped device? Also Skype can't carry on the call in the background? Then this is not Apple's faults.

I recently bought an iPad 4 and the user experience I would say is superb, no Android device could do things as properly as iPad.
 
ryanasimov said:
I've always thought that when you show your competitor's product in your own advertising, you're already beat.
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It would help if you googled previous Apple ads before commenting, I suppose. ;)

Hint: I'm a Mac ...
 
Kranchammer said:
Disclaimer: I develop for iOS. Professionally.

iOS developers are not, as a whole, more magical or competent than other sets of developers. If iOS apps on average are more polished then that is a function of the APIs available to the devs.

There is more money in the App Store, true, and therefore more developers. But to make the assertion that the SDK is somehow lacking is ignorant. True, you are limited to doing thing the Apple Way, but that doesn't mean the API's are 'behind'.
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I wouldn't call the APIs "behind", but even if they were, the App Store apps could still be nicer based on other factors.

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iGrip said:
The ad makes its point very effectively.

The iPad is crippled by the simplistic iOS compared to a tablet with a regular OS.
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Even if that was true, wouldn't you want to show someone doing something useful with the multitasking in the ad? All he had to do was drag some images from the web browser into an email, but no, the Surface user thinks it's really cool to be able to view spreadsheets while a video of someone else is on the corner of the screen. That's totally useless and does not make a good point.
 
Instead of simply making him taller, they should have had a woman in heels, with a baby in one arm, talking business on her cell phone, all while reading "sports" on a MS tablet... 'Cause women can do everything. :p
 
MacRumors said:
Microsoft has launched a fourth anti-iPad television advertisement, once again highlighting the iPad's inability to run multiple apps at the same time.
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That's not true. It can't display >1 app at a time, but it can run many at once.

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iSteve-O said:
What is the deal with Macrumor's obsession with Win8 Tablet commercials? lol:D
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I guess it brings out the fanboys, trolls, and haters from everywhere.
 
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