Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Tablet Ad Highlighting iPad's Flaws, High Price [Updated]

[AppleWarMachine]

As I always say....you get what you pay for

 

[needfx]

RTFA

a BIT overdramatic maybe??

 

[GoCubsGo]

iPad apps? 300,000

Windows? 3000

Pwned.

So you really need 300,000 apps? I'd say more than 25% of those apps are useless.

Seems to me the average consumer will see this ad and think how cool it is they can play the piano on their iPad. People want to do fun things on their tablet not edit PowerPoint documents.

"People want?" No, people don't just want to do fun things on their iPad. People, would likely be thrilled to be even more productive with their iPads.

Seems like the ad is trying to communicate too much and point out too many flaws/differences. Apple's ads seem to focus on one point and communicate it elegantly.

Yes, Apple has really driven home the fact that we can play piano on our iPads.

Sure, because using vanilla Windows apps on a tablet is great.

Oh, and great autocorrect displaying your ignorance of the internet.

Opting out of the whole "pwned" crap has nothing to do with ignorance of the internet. Be real.

The iPad camera doesn't have a flash.

By the way, GorillaZ used the iPad to make their new album. You should check out which apps they used on the iPad to make it.

Before the iPhone had a flash there were flashlight apps. You may not have had an iPhone prior to the inclusion of the flash, but flashlights existed prior to the flash itself. They increased the brightness of the screen to 100%, which acted as a low-grade pseudo flashlight.

Does more... But also a lot more complicated to use.

I didn't think so and I had never used Windows 8 prior to using a Surface.

I think the ad is wrong to some extent but of course, we don't have Office on the iPad. To point that out as a shortcoming of the iPad is lame because it is MS who hasn't developed it for iOS yet. They cripple users then poke fun for not having it. There is a great deal that can be done on the iPad but true multitasking is indeed lacking. The Samsung 10 (I believe) has implemented multitasking pretty well and Windows looks like it has done the same. I still favor Apple, but I'm not blindly wandering around thinking that it is the utopia of tablet computing.

 

[Tiger8]

Surface Pro w/ keyboard = $1100
iPad w/ cover = $550

Surface pro has an Intel processor, so you can't compare it to an iPad. If you want to be fair, do apples to apples (pun intended), iPad vs Surface RT. Also, compare units with similar storage, not a 16 GB iPad with 64 DB Surface.

BTW, i own an iPad and will never own a surface pro

 

[Xiroteus]

When it comes to the iPad vs Surface RT the iPad would win for me, Windows Surface Pro vs the iPad the Surface wins big time because it is what I would be looking for in a tablet however it still is in a different class because of the full OS and is more like a ultrabook.

Most vs ads from any company are always a bit silly as they only highlight a point or two when we all look at the overall ability of any device.

 

[baryon]

If I ever had to do anything in PowerPoint, that would only mean I've made a huge mistake in my life somewhere.

 

[shiseiryu1]

Boasting that there is no Powerpoint for iPad just makes me think Microsoft have been too lazy or protective to just get on and produce it. Chopsticks part is a nice dig though.

FYI Microsoft, Powerpoint is boring and sucks. Anyone who knows what's up knows to do a Prezi instead: www.prezi.com

 

[iSayuSay]

iPad 300,000 apps. Win8 50,000 apps

:confused again:

Yeah because you use and install 299,999 apps on your iPad, right?

Surface Pro dimensions - 10.81 x 6.81 x 0.53in + 0.128 in (keyboard) -1100$$$
MacBook Air 11, i5 4Gb, SSD 64 GB, aluminium body, can run win xp, 7 etc. (already with keyboard) dimensions - 11.8 x 7.56 x 0.68in - 1000$$$

You just can't compare it to iPad coz surface is a hybrid of a tablet and ultrabook. Apple doesn't do hybrids, only pure products

Don't shoot the messenger. I'm not the one who started comparing iPad and Surface Pro at the first place. Kill the original poster, would you?

Oh, and about only makes "pure" product?

Tell me what a Mac Mini is?
A desktop? Hardly, the inside is everything a laptop could have
A laptop? Last time I checked it doesn't have built in battery, does it?
A hybrid? Touche

 

[Tronic]

If the sound was muted, would you think it was an commercial promoting the iPad? An earlier comment about people wanting to do fun things on their tablets, ie play piano, made me realize this.

 

[CEmajr]

I still wouldn't buy either one, just don't have a practical use for a tablet but I thought it was a pretty good ad. Especially the chopsticks part at the end.

 

[iGrip]

The iPad had a good run. But so long as it will run only a cellphone-class OS, it will never be able to match a Windows 8 tablet.

Will the iPad ever catch up? Will apple release one with a computer-class OS?

 

[RolyPolyBird]

great ad, great points.

The biggest blind spot in Apples iOS approach is that its all about simple consumption and limits the true productive flexibility of legacy computers.
This ad makes that point, and well.

Agreed.

I can't understand why if a phone and macbook air can be so powerful why can't there be an option to run Mac OS on an iPad. Then I would finally be interested in buying one.

 

[Terrin]

For comparable hardware specs, the iPad does cost more than Microsoft's stuff. I think the iPad is reasonably priced, and then Microsoft goes cheap. But if you want cheap, there's Android! It's basically Windows but much, much better.

If I was going to ditch Apple, which I am not, I would go with Windows. Microsoft did a nice job with its OS, and it is not a clone of ios (like Android).

 

[jmgregory1]

Until, or if ever, MS designs their software to work with a touch based input, the idea of using a MS laplet to run their existing office software is anything but a good idea.

This is where MS just doesn't understand either the consumer or the technology. They really do seem to be floundering right now.

 

[ugahairydawgs]

Funny ad, just like the one they did with the Android and iOS people fighting.

Still doesn't make me want to buy one. The constantly updating live tiles in Windows 8 is just not interesting to me and outside of that I don't really see what the draw to the platform would be.

 

[iGrip]

The thing that always irks me when I watch ads that attack Apple is they always go for price.

I wish that they would instead lambaste Apple for their claims of being "Magical".

They could have a field day with that one.

 

[Terrin]

Agreed.

I can't understand why if a phone and macbook air can be so powerful why can't there be an option to run Mac OS on an iPad. Then I would finally be interested in buying one.

Battery life. Osx and iOs approach multitasking differently.

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The iPad had a good run. But so long as it will run only a cellphone-class OS, it will never be able to match a Windows 8 tablet.

Will the iPad ever catch up? Will apple release one with a computer-class OS?

What does that even mean?

 

[iGrip]

300,000 flashlight apps and farming games

go iPad!

Be fair. There's also 50,000 public domain books packaged as "apps".

 

[uknowimright]

RTFA That ain't a Surface Anything in the spot, it's an ASUS VivoTab Smart.

I love how people keep getting this wrong, they also seem to think this runs RT which is false it runs full Win 8 making the app # argument worthless

 

[iGrip]

Changing memory cards for anything else other than a camera seems so like April 2002

Your best bet is to get a 64 gig card and simply leave it in place. That way you have twice the memory of an iPad with no need to change the card.

Will Apple catch up and start offering 128 gigs of memory?

 

[Skika]

Your best bet is to get a 64 gig card and simply leave it in place. That way you have twice the memory of an iPad with no need to change the card.

Will Apple catch up and start offering 128 gigs of memory?

Already done.

 

[needfx]

Your best bet is to get a 64 gig card and simply leave it in place. That way you have twice the memory of an iPad with no need to change the card.

Will Apple catch up and start offering 128 gigs of memory?

Already done.

yup

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Yeah because you use and install 299,999 apps on your iPad, right?

No because I get 300,000 apps to choose from rather than 60,000. And among those 300,000 there are exclusive for iPad apps I love that doesn't exist or work well (for now) on my HP Envyx2.

 

[MOFS]

Yeah because you use and install 299,999 apps on your iPad, right?



Don't shoot the messenger. I'm not the one who started comparing iPad and Surface Pro at the first place. Kill the original poster, would you?

Oh, and about only makes "pure" product?

Tell me what a Mac Mini is?
A desktop? Hardly, the inside is everything a laptop could have
A laptop? Last time I checked it doesn't have built in battery, does it?
A hybrid? Touche

A Mac mini is a headless Mac, aimed at people (like me) who want a cheap Mac. What kind of hybrid comes without a monitor, keyboard or mouse?

 

[iGrip]

Desktop apps on Windows RT? Are you serious? Windows RT can only run apps from the Windows Store.

You seem to be confusing the tablet under discussion with some other product that runs some other OS.

The tablet shown in the ad runs Windows 8. That is the same OS that would run on a corporate class workstation.

The OS that you are bringing up is akin to the cellphone-style OS that is used on the iPad.