What Microsoft and you just can't grasp, living in your uber Geek worlds, is that 95% of people at least 50% of the time and probably more than 50% of people all the time have zero need for a PC with "additional input methods, mouse/fine pointing device input and tactile keyboard input".
You can argue less is more until you are blue in the face. But having a full function, properly positioned tactile feedback keyboard and touch-click trackpad easily snap onto my tablet; even functioning as its cover, makes a believer out of me. I can produce documents in Microsoft Word or numerous other classic productivity applications no different than a desktop PC. Fold it around the back, or disconnect it and I have a large-screen tablet, scarcely different than the iPad.
Having this tablet capable of working as a classic PC (or even more classically, a typewriter really or classic word processor) is not something I would qualify as anything less than indispensable.
Your argument to the contrary does not hold water, and I'd invite you to go try Word on a Surface at an MS holiday kiosk at your local mall. You may suddenly realize that less is really less, and what you describe as "zero need" is actually a fundamental deal-maker or deal-breaker - and a remarkable value for the money. The Surface could replace two Apple products, resulting in a savings of perhaps 80%.
Nothing uber-geek about saving money and getting value. |
