Samsung Bashes the iPad, Microsoft Surface and Kindle in New Ad

[Septembersrain]

All sheep are bad sheep. The overly relentless sheep are really, really bad sheep. The sheep comments on this site is unusually difficult to bear in nearly every case.

I agree. I give no unprecedented loyalty to any one company. You earn my business. If you stop providing me with the products I need or your quality fails, I'll seek elsewhere.

I was a huge Samsung fan and had only owned Android phones until recently. This Knox business and them wanting to deny me warranty on hardware because it was tripped? No thanks.

I've still got my Note 3 but it's no longer on an account. Both lines are filled with iPhones.

 

[sracer]

If the RT had the apps, I would probably consider it over an Air. WinRT is arguably better than iOS7 in a lot of ways, and would make for a better getting-things-done tablet. For all the flak Win8 gets, Metro on a touch enabled device is a joy to use.

But the OS itself isn't enough to make it stand out from the rest of the competition. It doesn't have the support and perks of the iPad, and it isn't a decent less expensive alternative like most of the Android tablets. It's just kind of there, stuck in an unhappy medium. I can see a lot of potential in it, but no real reason to run out and buy one right this second.

Microsoft announced at the Day 1 keynote of their //build/ developer's conference a "universal apps" framework for developers. Now I know that they've made similar promises in the past, and all previous attempts have fallen short, but IF they deliver on this it could be a game changer...

Suddenly those applications developed for full Windows 8 (Modern UI) will be available for Surface RT/2 and Windows Phone.

I own both an iPad 4 and a Surface 2. I love the maturity of the software available for iOS... software like Boss Jock Studio is amazing. But iOS is limited as is the hardware.

In contrast the Surface 2 hardware is extremely versatile. Windows RT is not as maintenance-free as iOS. (That's the trade-off... limited functionality = maintenance-free)

If the software situation were to improve for Windows RT, the landscape could dramatically change.

 

[Traverse]

Samsung's gettin jelly

Jealous?