Commercials like this one are so ridiculous when you can easily added a cover with a keyboard to the iPad at any time. The only people that are swayed by these ads are the people that work at Microsoft/Nokia.
Well for one thing, it's not just a keyboard - it's a keyboard and trackpad. And it's not just adding a keyboard to a tablet, it gives you access to the desktop with multiple windows and an actual file system.
On the iPad, the experience is exactly the same whether you have a keyboard or not - it just doesn't cover up half your screen.
Tablets with keyboards have been available for years.
They are called laptops.
You can't really read a book on a laptop, you don't have a touchscreen on a laptop (at least not from Apple) and you have a keyboard in the way when you just want to relax on the sofa with it.
You are right. The other thing they hit for is that you can run two apps at the same time. But if you have the RT and try that, it really sucks. Most apps are a bit unusable when it's minimized to ⅓ of the screen.
Windows 8.1 gives you more flexible snapping, so it's a lot more useful now.
- They are unreliable, they crash, they have to do Windows updates frequently
They
crash? Windows 8 is just as stable as OS X at this point, so if they're crashing it sounds like a hardware issue.
These are just a few of the major things, but is not comprehensive.
I would never trade my iPad Air for it, but playing around with it is fun, and different
I agree that they're not the right device to replace an iPad for some people yet, but that's how Microsoft always does things.
For their first release of a product at least, Apple would rather not include a feature at all, if they don't have it perfected.
Microsoft seem happy to include a feature that works well some of the time, but maybe not always, and fix it up over time, rather than leave you without it entirely.
I think in a couple of years, Windows 8.x or Windows 9 devices are going to be quite desirable if Apple keeps iOS as limited as it currently is.