MSFT may have taken a lot longer, but at least they avoided plagarizing every aspect of Apple's IPR to get the job done like Google for smartphones and tablets.
You have to give them a lot of credit for that. No question about it. And the fact that they felt comfortable taking 2.5 years to come up with a response to the iPad (longer, even, since their two-part response is only half here) is, I think, also commendable.
The Surface looks like a good product. It's an answer to the question, "Can I please have a tablet that runs Microsoft Office?" A kind of answer, anyway, since in order to do it you essentially turn the thing into a PC. And that may appeal to a whole lot of people. I don't know.
This, by the way, seems to be the main selling point of the Surface. It runs Office.
So then the question becomes, is it as good as the iPad at doing all the tablety things the iPad does? Is the music, movie, video, photo solution, including the part that lives in the cloud, as good as what Apple offers? |
