Even Microsoft wants iPads
Yeah I'll give you $200 for a new iPad if you like...
Wonder what M$ is doing with all of them?
Even Microsoft wants iPads
Except you are wrong. On several accounts. There are major advances in this chip that have nothing to do with RAM: Twice the number of registers. Twice the number of vector registers. Vector operations for double precision floating point. That alone makes it run faster. Lots of code is optimised for 64 bit, because years of MacOS X 64 bit optimisations can just be carried over. As an example of actual memory savings, the C++ standard library will not allocate memory for any strings up to 22 characters. NSNumber objects will usually not allocate any memory. Then there are built-in operations for cryptography, making encryption and decryption a lot faster.
Memory usage is 90% dictated by things where 64 bit doesn't produce any memory overhead, that is graphics, video, audio, text.
Does a car get any additional functionality every new model year? It does the same thing...get you to and from a place. Only engines, look, bells and whistles get upgraded really.
You're logic is really really bad.
You keep using that phrase. I don't think you know what it means.
You clearly haven't seen Microsoft's financial reports lately, then. They are doing VERY well. Notice how they just paid cash to buy out Nokia's devices and services division and still have over 70 billion dollars in the bank? Yeah--they're not hurting for profit.
How about the other way around?
Bring a surface to Apple Store to "ahem" trade "ahem" it in?![]()
Agreed! The dancing commercials were, in a phrase, DUMB AS HELL. What were they thinking?
But the commercials where they use Siri as their bitch to show all the things Windows tablets can do that iPads can't do are brilliant.
I'm giving you examples - extreme, maybe, but still relevant. You brag that you can run Photoshop on your Surface. Why not a 4" phone? Based on your exact logic, wouldn't that make such a phone more powerful than an iPhone? No. Nobody in the real world wants to do this. So why do you think editing HD images on a 10" tablet is "powerful"? It's not. But if you feel powerful doing stupid things on a tablet, simply because you can, rather than because it makes sense, then thumbs-up to you, little buddy. Stay warm.
If you've been paying attention, you'd know that Windows 8.1 was accelerated because 8.0 was such a disaster, in a (partial) backpedal of their stupid new ideas. Sure, every OS vendor releases new updates. But not every vendor reverts big chunks of their bold new paradigm within the first update, solely because it was received so poorly.
I'm comparing two 64GB devices with similarly functional "optional" accessories that are likely to be purchased with them and I was being very generous. The 64GB Surface Pro is Microsoft's "bottom-of-the-line" Pro model and the 64GB iPad is Apple's "next-to-top-of-the-line" iPad. Of course Windows 8 requires significantly more space for installation that iOS, so that iPad actually has more room for user data than that Surface. On top of that, the iPad is very usable without any keyboard accessory but the Surface is nearly crippled without one of its two available keyboard accessories.
As for the software you mentioned:
Visual Studio - $500 to $4,249 depending on what version you want.
vs.
Xcode - FREE There's just one version and it does everything.
Granted Xcode only runs on a Mac. But, as a developer I'd rather use a computer (as in non-tablet or non-phone device) for development but that's just me. And for me the same applies for Xcode or Visual Studio.
Adobe Creative Suite - $50 per month for the whole suite if you go through Creative Cloud. $20 per month for an individual app.
Almost every Adobe app I could in the app store is FREE. I did find at least one exception which is Photoshop Touch for $4.99. There might be others but I didn't look that far.
And come to think of it, if you want to run Adobe's bloatware, you better get the 128GB Surface Pro. The price just went up to $900 (+$80 for the keyboard.)
Or you could get a 128GB iPad for only $800. Much better value, IMO.
Lmao!! Run visual studio on your rt or pro pad. You are funny
This is like the Kia Dealerships advertising they will gladly take your lightly used Mercedes Benz on trade-in....
You keep using that phrase. I don't think you know what it means.
What's wrong with the battery life? Or do you mean the Surface Pro?
Who the hell buys an iPad every year???
It´s unlikely that people actually do this.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A/apple-ipad-camera-connection-kit
(That works with more than just a camera...it takes all sorts of USB devices)
I'm pretty sure Forstall had a say in that too. You know the whole 2 versions of the tablet OS Apple had going but Forstall's version won out.You do realize iOS doesn't have an accessible file system because that's how Steve Jobs wanted it. I only say that because these days every other comment here seems to be what Steve would/wouldn't have done.
Photos like that are funny. Vote to have the freedom to prevent others from having freedom (by shooting them dead).Maybe if Microsoft wants to pry my iPad out of my cold, dead, hands![]()