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Classic case of execution over strategy.

I owned a surface pro 3 and wanted to love it, but god, it was just awful. Short battery life, crappy eMMC-based storage, weird foldable keyboard you couldn't use on your lap, display that wasn't so bright, rarely if ever came out of suspend properly, the pen required two different kinds of battery (!?) and perhaps my personal favorite, the display sometimes rotated sideways and wouldn't de-rotate.

Pretty sure the iPad will have zero of these problems when it ships, and that makes all the difference, even if it's two years "late".

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> Pretty sure the iPad will have zero of these problems when it ships, and that makes all the difference, even if it's two years "late".

i personally find that a bold statement. my iPad lasted a whole year as an apartment-only tablet before just outright dying, whereas i have the original surface, a surface pro 4, and a surface laptop that have been heavily used inside and outside and still work flawlessly. and before it died, the software issues on the iPad were endless. on top of that, my macbook pro is useless due to mac os x updates, a dead network card, and a few broken keys (that broke all on their own through normal use, no drops).

personal experience is what it is, but you shouldn't make sweeping statements based upon it.

anyway, i find windows 10 to be the superior os. i run fantastic windows apps and a linux os all from the same computer rather seamlessly.

While the Surface devices have been great explorations of 2-in-1 form factors (I have a Surface Pro and a Surface Book), they've also felt kind of pointless to me because none of them were really usable as tablets! Don't even get me started on the pen interface.

>anyway, i find windows 10 to be the superior os. Why would you compare iOS to Windows 10?

The better comparison would be Mac OS X (Microsoft I noticed couldn't wait to get to 10, won't be long before they're calling it windows X I'm sure :))

I find Mac OS X to be the superior OS to Windows, since for yeeears I can run fantastic Mac apps and build and run fantastic Unix apps all on the same fantastic hardware.

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