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>> "Yeah, so MS might dominate the content-creation/student/artist tablet niche"

I doubt it. A keyboard alone isn't enough to win that market, great software is. Look at the content creation apps available on iOS - iMovie, Garageband, iWork, Paper, Brushes, DM1, Amplitube, Notion. It's going to be hard to catch up with that. They are built for touch. The people using them don't need a keyboard. A keyboard isn't really the ideal input device for someone creating content unless it is written content. For everything else touch seems to work better.

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It's already kind of happening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gG8TlUVyU

many designers look at the surface pro and find that it has very appealing features, and it's only going to get better.

I would like to add to that, quality of design that third party apps and native apps on Mac OSX seem to have (in general) is much higher; this brings the more 'artsy' and student vertical onboard. UI/UX has obviously been a large part of OSX for quite sometime, which is obviously aided by Apple's minimalist design philosophy.

Moving from OSX to Windows I have noticed a large lack of ease of use and good UX flows in a lot of third party apps.

>"Moving from OSX to Windows I have noticed a large lack of ease of use and good UX flows in a lot of third party apps."

I would say that is because you were really used to OSX. I was the other way around and really dislike the whole OSX UI experience.

I think it is just a bias based on our previous experience. Right now after moving freely between OSX, Ubuntu and Windows at different jobs for the last 5 years, I still prefer the UI experience of Windows (I only wish Windows would have a command line similar to Linux's one and it would be perfect)

True but you must admit that Windows XP's default theme never really inspired any designer. The aero themes that followed are pretty good but to '3D' for my tastes.

I wish Microsoft would could out with a desktop OS (like windows 7) with pixel scaling and a nice flat UI (so I don't have to install some sketchy theme that screws up my font sizes and close/minimize/maximize buttons)

Have you tried Powershell ? It is pretty nice. If I didn't have 20 years experience with bash, I think I'd even prefer it to it.

I haven't yet.. and probably I should, I am just so used to bash :)

a while back i noticed this when i moved from windows to osx. and still i feel a little (not as much though) that osx is not as "fluid" and has less "finesse" and that the UI in osx is not well designed, especially things like buttons, menu, placement of items, and even the look of the buttons, the dock, etc.

It seemed possible that it was due to my getting used to Windows and not being familiar with os x.

A part of me though thinks that Windows UI is in fact superior to OSX ui, and that OSX has a somewhat amateurish feel to it. If I ran a design-centric company and my OS looked like that for a decade, it would bother me strongly.

One thing that makes a good difference in the iPad is using it with a Stylus

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