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Comment by harrystone | Hacker News Reader

I imagine the strategy is that if you want Office on a tablet, you need to buy a Surface. Apparently it's not reason enough.

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You get the full Office 2013 suite with most x86 tablets nowadays (which you won't when you buy a Surface oddly enough). For me that definitely played a part in my decision to get an Asus T100.

People don't buy whole devices for an app. Or at least not most people.

> People don't buy whole devices for an app.

For the record, I've heard variants of the exact opposite argument for why "people will never switch from iOS to Android", or "I could never give up $APP on my iPhone".

If Office really is that important to you, then yes, you might actually consider getting a Surface (tablet/laptop combo) instead of a Macbook and an iPad separately.

I'm pretty sure that's not true, and many people do very much buy a device for one killer app. Look at games consoles, if the tablet market alone isn't convincing.

However, I very much doubt anyone is going to buy a tablet-style device (of any brand) for this kind of application, because it's a silly kind of application to run on a tablet-style device.

What reasons do you believe people are buying devices for it not the applications on them?

If you are putting the emphasis on app then I would point out that Office is used by almost as many people as Facebook, so an app is a bit of an over simplification.

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