New Windows Tablet Ad Again Uses Siri's Voice to Poke Fun at iPad

[gctwnl]

Whatever the facts, the ad looks effective

Whatever the use of that zooming or that micro SD card (remember Android phones used to have USB/cards and not anymore? There is a reason for that) it seems effective to get people to doubt "iPad can do more" (just by mentioning three examples, the two things at once seems a good trick, BTW) and get across you can get 'more' for less money.

Which is what the ad tries to suggest: Windows Tablet: 'get more for less'. Whatever the truth, the message is brought in an effective way. And it definitely is better ad work than those Genius ads Apple ran a while back.

 

[donutbagel]

Anybody fact check the Dell tablet XPS 10 display specs ?

Its resolution is only 1366x768, while the iPad they are comparing it to is
2048x1536.

So it's more comparable to an iPad2 at $399, or even an iPad Mini in terms of PPI.
Sure there's the 16GB vs 32GB difference, but the more expensive component and IMHO important feature is the retina display.

Sshh, they conveniently left the display spec out for a reason.

 

[iGrip]

People used to like Microsoft.

Now people HATE Windows AND Microsoft.

Huh?

People used to hate Microsoft. In the mid- to late-1990s, Microsoft was seen as a pariah who was holding back the very development of computers and the internet. People were using crappy version of Windows, and hating it, at various points. Windows ME, around the turn of the century, was an abomination.

Windows is fine now. It works great. It used to be horrible.

I think that you have things exactly backwards. Do you remember the Windows 95 era?

 

[rdlink]

But not the macbook air, which is aimed at the majority of consumer product. Only the pros still have sd cards meant for people who use high quality digital cameras for photo editing on their laptops. Not something you need on a tablet.

Umm, you're digging yourself into a hole. The MBA does have an SD slot.

 

[iGrip]

Exactly, so why would the tablet, aimed at the average consumer, need a microSD slot? Making those slots obsolete for that particular target consumer market.

My first thought is that people would want to take content with them away from home.

With an SD card slot, they could easily take an entire project's worth of documents, and have plenty of room to drop on some movies and books for downtime.

 

[iSee]

I laughed when I saw this ad last night.

But I don't want that Dell tablet.

I don't want to use SD cards and I don't care about pinching the home screen (Come to think of it, that's a dumb "advantage" to highlight in an ad. I guess it was just to set up the "Ouch!" joke.)

I do like the way Windows 8 does the split screen. It's pretty nice in real life usage... probably my favorite thing about Windows 8.

Oh, and here's my little rant about SD cards:
The problem is SD cards is the same problem with all removable media. Once you use it you have to manage the media. You've got to label, organize, store, and transport the cards. In the age of the cloud it just seems ridiculous. I want ubiquitous high-speed wireless networks to access all my data automatically, not the bleeping sneaker net.

Now, I realize "the cloud" is far from perfect or suitible for all situations. But a tablet is a device for the cloud/post-PC era, whatever we call it. I'd much rather have a tablet that is focused on the post-PC world than one where one of its best features is legacy support for the sneaker net.

 

[deputy_doofy]

SD card is the only legitimate thing Microsoft says. Then again, when a 64GB tablet comes with 20-something GB on a freshly installed tablet, that says a lot for Microsoft's bloated inefficiency.

 

[rdlink]

When I was on my Caribbean cruise last month, I took photos and video clips with a "real" camera. Sometimes, I wanted to share photos with my Facebook friends. So I would take a photo with my good camera, and then take the equivalent photo with my iPhone, and then I would post the iPhone photo on Facebook. Of course, the iPhone photo looked nowhere near as nice as the one I took with the real camera.

I could have taken out my CCK, and set up a transfer, but it was quicker and easier to take two photos with two cameras. Which was kind of silly, but.. oh well.

What's your point? If you had a tablet with an SD card slot you would have still needed to remove the SD card from your camera, take it out of the adapter (the one that converts it from being a micro card to a faux full sized card) and put it into the tablet's slot.

With the iPad, all that you would have had to do is take the card out of the camera, leave it in the adapter, and plug it into the iPad using the CCK.

And let's not forget how much easier it would be to work with the photos on the iPad once they're transferred than it would be on the Windows tablet…

I use a "real" camera, and I bought a CCK for my first iPad. It was probably my first accessory. I've used it maybe once in 3 years. Not because it's a pain to use, but because I haven't had much use for it.

 

[Macist]

Stupid ad. Just makes the viewer think that the iPad is the 'one to beat' therefore must be the 'one to have'.

 

[Tech198]

Someone doesn't like Siri very much, do they. Rather than bashing iPad, i'd like to see Microsoft do this with Surface.

 

[rdlink]

Actually the majority of smartphone users use Android devices, meaning that its likely that statement is wrong. Also, 99% is unlikely to be a factual number. I get what your saying though. However, professionals are going to be using real cameras that need to save to an sd card.

I submit that your statement about majority of "smartphone" users is incorrect. While there may be more Android phones in the world, the vast majority of people who carry them very likely do not use them as "smartphones." They were just talked into buying something that they thought was a cheaper alternative by some salesperson at the phone store, and they use it like they did their old flip phone.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people outside of geekdom who actually use their phones as a smartphone are likely using iOS. Web traffic statistics back that up.

The rest of your statement I agree with.

 

[flottenheimer]

I didn't laugh when I saw this.
It didn't make me angry either.
In fact, I didn't feel a thing.

 

[ipedro]

You gotta admit it's a good ad. It succeeds in making Apple look bad to the average consumer while being funny but almost every features that was demonstrated is useless fluff. I don't think it'll make any significant dent in iPad sales.

The exception is with the SD card. There's little reason why a slot couldn't be added. Apple agrees that there is certainly a use for it on the iPad given that Apple sells the camera connection kit and they've already made provision for external storage in iOS so there aren't any technical hurdles.

Apple added it to all their new Macs so it wouldn't be far fetched to expect it in a future model. Until there's an industry standard on wireless photo transmission from cameras, there is definitely going to be a need to have an SD slot on the iPad itself.

 

[rdlink]

I have that Eye-fi card and is so sllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

it takes for ever to upload, it works its almost like a toy.

This. I've had an Eye-fi card for about 3+ years, and I've used it via WiFi exactly once. So slow and glitchy that I just pull it out of my camera and plug it into my computer. Takes about a minute to upload my photos. Eye-fi is an epic fail. Could have bought twice the storage for less money with a standard SD card.

 

[AppleMark]

Neither will the xbox and the ps3 also didn't have backwards compatibility with prior generations. This is not a new move by sony

You are mistaken.

The original [1st gen] PS3, did play PS2, the next release removed that capability. The current [my PS3 at least] plays PS One games, but not PS2.

 

[rdlink]

Sadly, not the 11" Air, for size reasons I assume. Otherwise, I'd buy one today. As it is, I'm waffling between the 11" and the 13", trying to determine just how much I need a built in SD slot or whether I can live with an external USB one.

My $.02: I like the screen real estate and 1440 x 900 aspect ratio of the 13". To me it's worth it for the size and weight difference. Also, you get a much longer battery life with the 13".

 

[appleisking]

You are mistaken.

The original [1st gen] PS3, did play PS2, the next release removed that capability. The current [my PS3 at least] plays PS One games, but not PS2.

Exactly, you're suggesting this move to end backward compatibility started with the ps4 and that somehow the xbox one is better because of it and im pointing out that backwards compatibility was tossed during the ps3 era. That doesn't help your point at all.

 

[carmenodie]

Typical losing MS!
They come late to the party because they can stand the idea, can't blame them, that their old a** computer selling business model is stuck in the late 90's and 80's.
So after Apple rakes in the dough, MS finally releases some sh** tablet and in their "our house is bigger than your house" sandbox fashion they come, guns blazing, with an ad to dissuade potential buyers not to buy whatever product Apple is selling. LOL!
I'll never touch a MS product. Ever!

 

[Lancer]

I hate ads like this, it shows desperation... Oh wait the "I'm a Mac" campaign :lol:

Still iOS7 will bring true multi taking for iPad owners so I guess they have to do this while iOS6 is the OS in use.

This has to be the worst ad ive ever seen. Oh you can zoom the start page wow so cool. And who the hell actually uses an SD card still? Only about a million other ways to store and transfer things

Just about anyone who uses a digital camera!

 

[rdlink]

Just because you don't need it doesn't mean others don't. $100 for 16GB additional memory is just rip-off.

You do realize that Windows takes up about 20GB on the tablet, don't you? You have to buy at least 16GB more just to store the freaking bloated OS, and you're still about 2GB behind.

 

[Greene1123]

Microsoft boasting a $399 price point. Funny considering recent events... *coughPS4cough

 

[Bantz]

I got a Windows RT tab and its brilliant. I really love the touch keyboard I got with it. And at 400 with the free keyboard is a great deal. Its the best tablet I have used by a long way. I imagine a lot of the Mac fanboys will snigger and write it off without using it well their lose.

 

[AppleMark]

Exactly, you're suggesting this move to end backward compatibility started with the ps4 and that somehow the xbox one is better because of it and im pointing out that backwards compatibility was tossed during the ps3 era. That doesn't help your point at all.

I suggested no such thing.

What on earth are you talking about?

I have never owned an Xbox and probably never will. However, none of this has anything to do with any of my comments, or your mis-interpretation of them.

 

[appleisking]

Typical losing MS!
They come late to the party because they can stand the idea, can't blame them, that their old a** computer selling business model is stuck in the late 90's and 80's.
So after Apple rakes in the dough, MS finally releases some sh** tablet and in their "our house is bigger than your house" sandbox fashion they come, guns blazing, with an ad to dissuade potential buyers not to buy whatever product Apple is selling. LOL!
I'll never touch a MS product. Ever!

Actually Microsoft was the first to release tablets but they were absolute crap. So they're not late to the party so much as haven't learned anything from what happens to a tablet trying to run a fully fledged windows operating system

 

[D.T.]

My $.02: I like the screen real estate and 1440 x 900 aspect ratio of the 13". To me it's worth it for the size and weight difference. Also, you get a much longer battery life with the 13".

Same here, I prefer the 16:10 over the 16:9 for other than watching a movie. You're only talking about ~1/2 lb difference, externally they're very close. The additional battery and SD slot (if it's something you need) seems like a no brainer, even at $100 more.