Of course, if you are awake during the ad, you ask:
Why doesn't the Surface answer these questions? Because it can't.
Why does the Surface need expansion? Because you don't get all of the memory stated since the OS is bloated.
According to this commercial... USB ports are a very important feature.
So why is Microsoft stuck with 6 million Surface RT tablets that they cannot sell?
Meanwhile... the iPad has never had a USB port... and they've sold over 100 million.
Maybe Microsoft should re-evaluate the USB port as a selling point...
According to this commercial... USB ports are a very important feature.
So why is Microsoft stuck with 6 million Surface RT tablets that they cannot sell?
Meanwhile... the iPad has never had a USB port... and they've sold over 100 million.
Maybe Microsoft should re-evaluate the USB port as a selling point...
The weird part about it all is Apple is switching to Bing which helps Microsoft and the turn around is Microsoft trying to screw Apple with this idiotic tablet ad.......BUT......Microsoft is too stupid to realize that they are hurting themselves while helping Apple in this ad. Making Siri the star attraction puts the attention on the iPad to anyone watching. And for the people who analyze ads know that adding the prices at the end to show who's cheaper just proves desperation of Microsoft.![]()
Well, try selling it to my wife. So you start "The Surface RT has a USB port, and the iPad doesn't. " She thinks: What is a you ess bee port? I don't know what that is. Sounds difficult to me. I don't know if it's too difficult for me. I'd rather have an iPad.
According to this commercial... USB ports are a very important feature.
So why is Microsoft stuck with 6 million Surface RT tablets that they cannot sell?
Meanwhile... the iPad has never had a USB port... and they've sold over 100 million.
Maybe Microsoft should re-evaluate the USB port as a selling point...
The reason for Bing is that Apple will much rather support Microsoft than Google at this point in time. For multiple reasons: Microsoft is generally more harmless now than Google, Ballmer was never on the Apple board and thrown out, and I suppose that Microsoft is more trustworthy with users' data than Google.
I think MS is late, Windows RT sucks but I think they are taking advantage of the lacks of iOS, I DO NEED a USB port on my iPad, I DO NEED a real file system, I DO NEED to connect my iPad without using iTunes and the Multitasking on iOS is definitely really poor.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Most consumers do not want Windows or desktop experience on there mobile devices. Who wants to hire someone to fix their mobile device cause of fragmentation or registry issues? These days its about mobility and efficiency. USB seems like outdated technology these days.
I think even the Windows Brand does more harm than good for MS at this point. The phone appears to be a nice product but the brand name alone probably turns off many folks. When you think of Windows, you start thinking about blue screens and tech visits. Certainly not an experience anyone looks forward too.
Of course, if you are awake during the ad, you ask:
Why doesn't the Surface answer these questions? Because it can't.
Why does the Surface need expansion? Because you don't get all of the memory stated since the OS is bloated.
Well, try selling it to my wife. So you start "The Surface RT has a USB port, and the iPad doesn't. " She thinks: What is a you ess bee port? I don't know what that is. Sounds difficult to me. I don't know if it's too difficult for me. I'd rather have an iPad.
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I think you hit the nail on the head. Most consumers do not want Windows or desktop experience on there mobile devices. Who wants to hire someone to fix their mobile device cause of fragmentation or registry issues? These days its about mobility and efficiency. USB seems like outdated technology these days.
I think even the Windows Brand does more harm than good for MS at this point. The phone appears to be a nice product but the brand name alone probably turns off many folks. When you think of Windows, you start thinking about blue screens and tech visits. Certainly not an experience anyone looks forward too.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Most consumers do not want Windows or desktop experience on there mobile devices. Who wants to hire someone to fix their mobile device cause of fragmentation or registry issues? These days its about mobility and efficiency. USB seems like outdated technology these days.
I think even the Windows Brand does more harm than good for MS at this point. The phone appears to be a nice product but the brand name alone probably turns off many folks. When you think of Windows, you start thinking about blue screens and tech visits. Certainly not an experience anyone looks forward too.
I think that is true for MOST people. I want the Surface Pro because of what it can do, yet at the same time I want a simple device that allows me to just check a few things and read etc.. I also know most people somehow never learn the most basic of repairs after using a computer for fifteen years and cannot just fix it themselves so a simpler device can be useful for that.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Most consumers do not want Windows or desktop experience on there mobile devices. Who wants to hire someone to fix their mobile device cause of fragmentation or registry issues? These days its about mobility and efficiency. USB seems like outdated technology these days.
I think even the Windows Brand does more harm than good for MS at this point. The phone appears to be a nice product but the brand name alone probably turns off many folks. When you think of Windows, you start thinking about blue screens and tech visits. Certainly not an experience anyone looks forward too.
Maybe, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but we have not seen that put to the test yet due to 1) ipads have been out FAR longer than windows tablets, and 2) MS screwed up their windows tablets release very badly.
My own personal litmus test is how popular would laptops be if they were released with iOS? I don't know, maybe they would be hugely popular, they have been much smaller, lighter and have better battery life. On the flip side they would have been unable to do most of a desktops function. Similar to today where the ipad really has very little "PC" functionality to replace a desktop or a laptop. A windows tablet can, however, replace a laptop. I believe there are a lot of consumers out there who would like to replace their laptop instead of carrying their laptop and their ipad, I know that was the case with me.
The ipads have been the tablet standard for a while now, and people just have grown accustomed to thinking they are all a tablet is capable of, media consumption. If you could have a tablet the SAME size, weight, thinness and battery life of an ipad, BUT you could have the same full OS you have on your desktop and laptop AND you could switch to an easy mode for dummies, AND it cost the same or in most cases less than an ipad I don't see why consumers wouldn't prefer it in some cases. Certainly we can't look past the incredible market appeal and coolness of Apple as a company, plus they make some incredible hardware, and of course as I mentioned Microsofts awful awful strategy.
Plus the whole blue screens thing is a thing of the past, just a smoke screen the ignorant throw up these days. Windows 7 was extremely stable, in the years I had multiple desktops and laptops I could count the number of blue screens on one hand, and that was with machines that had a lot of different brands of hardware in them, desktops with video cards and other peripherals that added complexity. Windows 8 so far I have not seen a single blue screen on multiple devices. Win7 and Win8 are very frequently lauded for being stable without blue screens.
I think blue screens are a valid point to bring up when discussing Windows. They are part of the history of the OS and can still occur depending on faulty driver/software or hardware.
Yeah? If your Mac catches on fire, it'll probably kernel panic when the ram pops from all the heat. Why harp on a potentiality?
Blue screens don't just happen at random anymore. They really haven't since XP.
LOL, come on. So every faulty driver or device is scheduled to occur when you expect it? The point being made is that when discussing Windows, for most consumers, stability and ease of use aren't the first things that fly off the tongue. When consumers purchase a product, they think about past experiences as a deciding factor most of the time.
Yeah, and blue screens rarely ever happen these days, and haven't for years. You're saying because it was a big issue for the Windows 9x series, people remember that and judge current versions against it?
It's like comparing a modern Mac against the absolute terribleness of OS8 and 9. Hell, Macs didn't even have preemptive multitasking until 2001.
You clearly don't work in I/T. Also, of the entire post, why did you focus on one small fragment to go back and forth on?
And you're clearly not a dinosaur herder.
Why did I focus on one small part? Cuz Macs usually are easier to use than Windows machines. But as far as stability and power go, they're about neck and neck these days.
In my initial post I stated that the BSOD doesn't occur nearly as much as in the past but that memory has a lasting effect on many consumers.
I think blue screens are a valid point to bring up when discussing Windows. They are part of the history of the OS and can still occur depending on faulty driver/software or hardware. Absolutely nothing ignorant about that. Now does the BSOD happen a lot less now with each new version? Sure, but the point is a valid one. As a one off goodie for you, the XBOX 360 has the infamous RROD and that was a completely different OS but I digress.
There are some folks out there that want a full OS on a tablet, but truly they are the minority. Why do I say this? The consumers have spoken. PC\laptop sales are in decline year after year. Tablets are flying off the shelves (excluding Microsoft's). Even if there was a large market out there for a full blown OS on a tablet, Microsoft's approach would still fail and already has failed. The Surface Pro is hardly lighting up the sales charts. The way you put it, you basically said if the Surface costs $1 and if it had an easy mode, etc..... it would sell like hotcakes. That's a whole lot of ifs!
Again, I think some folks including Microsoft keep clinging to the past to try and lead us into the future. It's a bad strategy. People have seen the light and don't want it anymore. Do you really want to go back to the days of installing Java, Flash, and Shockwave before you get on the internet? Do you want to go back to scheduled defrags? Scheduled virus scans? Updating your drivers to get the kinks worked out? Do you want to go back to deciding if you need PRO, HOME, HOME PREMIUM, ENTERPRISE and so on? Nope. There is a better way and Microsoft is not currently providing it.
P.S. MS used to be able to buy or bully their way out of messes. Now all their competitors have the same or better financial strength and clout so copying technology isn't going to cut it anymore. They truly need to innovate to thrive nowadays. Ballmer has to go!
Of course BSODs still happen. Hardware goes bad. Drivers get messed up. If you're running a hardware intensive server that needs to be up as long as possible, you'll want tools to figure out exactly why something went wrong if and when it does.
Just because MS provides tools to read blue screen dumps doesn't speak of the stability of the OS itself. There are crash logs in Unix. There are crash logs in Linux. There are crashlogs in BeOS. Crashes do happen.
Though...
For how long? 10 years? 20? 10 years ago, OSX was only just starting to get decent. 20? Only the hardcore of the hardcore stuck with Macs back then. Yet these days no one thinks about all the problems Apple machines used to have. So why is this somehow different for Windows?
...probably because a lot more people have used Windows, which kinda works into your bottom line. For a long time MS controlled close to 95% of the entire PC market. People are gonna remember bad things a little more because of that.
But it's not really pertinent to the quality of the OS these days. And contrary to the woeful performance of the Surface, and the moderate declining of the market, Windows and Windows 8 tablets and laptops are selling well enough to bring in profit for quite a few companies.
Edit: Hey cool! Links!
http://www.macworld.com/article/2027201/how-to-troubleshoot-a-kernel-panic.html
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/Troubleshooting-Os-X-Kernel-Panics.htm
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10344626-263.html
...what's kinda funny is that the steps you take to resolve constant kernel panics are about the same to fix BSOD issues.