Who Is Most Likely to Switch From Windows to a Mac?
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I'm 'willing' to switch to a Porsche 911. That doesn't mean it's going to happen.
The truth is we really don't know exactly what the report said at all. The whole article looks like it's predicated on deliberate distortion and misrepresentation of the underlying source.
That's literally the only feature they mention. Touchscreen compatibility. It makes them look like they're from the stone age and completely unaware of the competition
But yeah - Microsoft just won't let the "Pen computing" vision die - they've been at it since their first "Windows for Pen Computing" release in 1992.
Serious question: does anyone use the handwriting note-taking abilities they added to the Edge Browser when people were begging for Extension support?
regardless of what they mean, what they say is ridiculous
The stylus is a neat gimmick on the Surface, but usability suffered after they stopped licensing their stylus tech from Wacom. Sometimes it tracks the stylus when you’re not quite touching the screen, so you get messy little lines before and after your strokes. The pressure sensitivity isn’t very good either. It doesn’t track well enough to take hand-written notes at the scale you’d write on paper, so you have to write in huge letters. Microsoft should go back to Wacom.
As for Apple’s Pencil, it’s fantastic. It’s actually better than my Wacom Cintiq (admittedly, it’s a previous gen Cintiq. The new version may be better). The accuracy and latency are great, pressure sensitivity is excellent, and tilt sensitivity works well. The only bad thing is that you have to charge the stylus, but a full charge takes about 20 minutes.
So if I were Microsoft, I wouldn’t be using the stylus as a selling point, considering their stylus is way behind the competition. And seriously Microsoft, you have no business trying to develop your own stylus tech just to save a few bucks. Wacom has this stuff figured out, so just pony up the dough and be done with it.
Even the first Wacom stylus that Microsoft had for the first Surface Pro wasn't as good as the Pencil. When I got my first iPad Pro, I was angry at Microsoft for not doing as good a job as Apple did with the Pencil despite having many years head start. Honestly, wtf Microsoft?
Luckily for them I like just about everything else in Windows better than iOS. The only thing Windows has been missing for tablet mode IMO has been a dictation key on their virtual keyboard. That's why I treat my Surface Pro as a laptop. (I gave away the Surface Pro 1 and kept the 3.)
Microsoft is finally giving us a dictation key this fall though, so I will most likely switch away from iPad altogether if that works well. At that point the only thing the iPad will offer for me is the tight integration with Facetime/iMessage. I can't wait to have a full OS and real Chrome on a Windows tablet again!
The ad is not a good one as for example it was not clear for you. On the other hand people already know basic windows features, this is their intended direction of developing the system: more natural human interface, including handwriting and voice recognition.
So assuming Apple originally prices things in dollars and converts for foreign markets, 1500 EUR in 2014 is the same price as 1900-2000 EUR today just based on the exchange rate changes.
I think what did it for me was the hardware, but the forced updates and telemetry completely sabotaged trust and closed the deal. It was a tough move, but my new found hatred for Microsoft fueled the whole journey adequately. Just what are they thinking?
This survey is making me think I may start packing my things and moving to Linux. With great numbers come all the nasty viruses. No thanks!
Anecdata would suggest that the desire to move to something else is more prevalent amongst devs and techies. The MacBook is becoming a consumer device.
It's the year of the Linux desktop, at last! Maybe it really will happen before I start drawing my pension after all.
I think it always has been. The "pro" has been aimed more at artists than techies, and even there thing have been sagging as of late.
That Macbooks ran unix was a legacy of Next, and there in turn i was a convenient choice for rapidly bringing up a usable OS.
The BSD side of OSX/MacOS have been largely stagnant since the first release, afaik.
I have became a windows user from linux user, and I don't regret it. I can still use linux on my servers, but on desktop it didn't suite my needs.
It's a factor in the opposite direction too. I'd love to switch away from Mac, and I work in my Windows 10 VM much more often lately. But I've had Windows force a major update just as I arrived at the coworking space, wasting 2 hours of productive time. The whole time I'm praying it finishes before I had to run for my train home, when I'd have to shut it down even though it says "Don't Turn Off Your Computer". I've had other issues too, like updates failing in endless loops & burning through my tethering data.
Microsoft has to fix updating, it's one area where Apple is significantly better.
Seems like things haven't changed much.
And I have to say, it is kinda nice. I don't think the gains for developer are so big that they justify a double price, but they are certainly nice.
The alu body is very sturdy and the touchpad disabling when typing is really good.
I also started doing educational videos and QuickTime + iMovie are pre-installed so I could start without any hesitation.
On the other hand, macOS has bad UX, often I can't find how to do things right away, because they aren't correctly named or hiding is some strange sub-menus somewhere. I don't think it's much worse than on Linux, but everyone was praising macOS UX and I just can't see it. Also the keyboard has a different layout than on PC and it feels like shortcuts are randomly spread between Ctrl and Cmd. The first week I had to Google some keys, because the keyboard didn't have labels for them ([, ], ~ and | for example).
I also read that many people are switching from Apple MacBooks to MS Surface Pro since the latest iteration of MacBooks came out.
I’m not implying wrongdoing on Verto’s part, but I don’t believe their survey results. The idea that such a huge chunk of the PC market could or would simply up and move to Apple, or that Apple could even absorb the influx of customers within such a short period of time, are both highly dubious assertions. Customers may talk about making these kinds of moves due to brand halos or favorable perception, but there’s no indication that PC consumers are going to leap for Apple en masse.