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An ode to Surface 3

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I got an iPad Mini 4 this week to see if it could replace my Dell Venue 8 Pro as my daily web-browsing tablet.

Turns out it can't. Browsing in iOS is a 2nd rate experience no matter which browser you use. Apps are great in iOS but I just can't bring myself to give up Chrome on Windows for that.

So my wife got the new iPad Mini and I took her old 4th gen for testing stuff and using iOS when necessary...

The Surface is the best piece of hardware I can never quite bring myself to buy. In an alterative universe Microsoft started making their hardware years earlier, before people like me jumped to Intel Macs and now can't justify switching back from OS X.

You make it sound like it's all about hardware in your alternative universe. After being a Windows user for many years and recently switching to a Mac Pro / Mac OS I could never return to Windows. Anything I need from Windows I can easily run using WINE.

It isn't all about software, but I've watched OS X get worse and worse over the years. I don't see Windows as a particularly bad alternative.

As the author posted the article and the error is consistently made within the posted article:

http://its-not-its.info/

Fixed :-) thanks

Fantastic. Is there a similar one for their/they're/there?

It's/its, there/they're/their, two/too/to should and will collapse into a single form in the coming decade. In the age where English is a worldwide lingua franca, prescriptivism is a worthless endeavor.

Language changes. The subjunctive is practically dead, long since merged with the indicative and therefore only inferred from context. You had no trouble reading this article with the author using the 'wrong' its/it's.

sure in this context maybe but if you actually consciously ignore it/it's in your writing style you'll end up with a lot of confusing sentences. saying things will change in the future doesn't mean you get to ignore accepted rules in the present.

You certainly do "get to ignore accepted rules." That's how we got to where we are today, language wise. Split infinitives, sentences that end with prepositions, slang, emoji, abbrevation -- language lives.

Things aren't changing in the future. They're changing now.

I challenge you to compose a sentence, in context like this blog post, that is confusing to a native speaker with its/it's collapsed.

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