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So I was reading last night how good Jelly Bean 4.2 was, and I checked, I had 4.1. Moments later, I was prompted and my tablet updated to 4.2. It's very sweet, I can have multiple user accounts ( for example, we all play Words and Scramble, and each account will have a different person logged in ), and the front page just gets more and more useful. My take is that the Windows tablet will win with business users wanting to run office, iPads for the unwashed masses, and Android for geeks. Anyone disagree ?
Christian Graus
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Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Windows tablets are too expensive and the OS is power hungry, and the APIs for tables, phones and PCs is not compatible. Windows tables are doomed.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Windows tables are doomed
I agree. Nice in the Summer but it gets cold when you sit there in the Winter. We've moved our table to a more central location.
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There's a tablet coming soon that runs full Windows 8. I think that will be compelling for business users.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Well, unless you're talking about desktop application development, which won't work on Windows RT, Windows 8 PC and tablet development is *exactly* the same -- Windows Store apps will run on both Win 8 and Win RT, if compiled that way. I know this because I'm developing one right now in my spare time. I'm developing it on my Windows 8 PC and testing it on both that PC and my Surface tablet running Windows RT. I *would* like to see the ability to develop for all three screens at once, but can already develop for two.
My RT tablet has enough battery life to get me through the day. Granted, I don't get to do much with it during the work day (since I'm working - well, except when I'm jacking around here on CP) but I make up for that in the evenings even when I'm not doing the dev/test/fix cycle.
As to price, the Surface is no more expensive than the iPad with the same amount of storage and it includes the ability to add removable storage in the form of microSDXC and USB. And that price includes a keyboard, unlike the iPad. I think we're going to see some truly cool hardware come out and the OEM hardware market will compete to bring prices down, just like the PC market already does.
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Christian Graus wrote: My take is that the Windows tablet will win with business users wanting to run office, iPads for the unwashed masses, and Android for geeks.
In my opinion: iPads for the rich unwashed masses, Android for the poor unwashed masses and Windows tablets for .NET programmers who are trying to do tablet development with their favorite tools.
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Well, the Android one is *better* ( I have both, and I've used the iPad a LOT more, but the Android is just winning me at every turn ). But, it has less content right now ( for example, the magazine store has less, and the content is more vanilla )
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: Well, the Android one is *better*
You mean Nexus 7 is better than iPad? I don't own either, but according to my coworker who owns a Nexus, even iPad mini is far better and the full iPad with Retina is entirely different class.
My own experience with Android devices is pretty 
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Yes, I've read a lot that says that the new OS was a major leap forward and the first to compete with Apple. I am talking about the whole environment, not something as trivial as how many pixels it has, although my Nexus 7 looks at least as nice as my iPad. The software is what defines the experience, not the physical device. I don't know if a mini has fundamentally different software on it, but that would seem odd to me.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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I was trying to think who does not have an iPad. Everyone at my work has one. Everyone of my close friends have it. The only people who don't have it are hard core Microsoft loyalists who were waiting for surface. The future of Surface looks a little bleak to me.
Nexus 7 is my favorite - best value for money.
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Agreed - and I think it's cheap enough and cool enough for people who have an iPad to come on board, esp over time.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: I was trying to think who does not have an iPad. Everyone at my work has one. Everyone of my close friends have it. The only people who don't have it are hard core Microsoft loyalists who were waiting for surface.
I do not own an iPad and I am not waiting on Surface. I, sir, have my priorities in order.
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I not only do not have an iPad, nor am waiting to get a Surface, I do not own a mobile device. Think about this. If 30 years ago, any government had mandated that everyone in the population would now have to wear an identifying moniker around their neck, so that they could be tracked or traced at a moments notice, there would have been a rather large uproar about that. Instead, cell-phones were invented and seemingly everyone has gone out and purchased one. 
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No ipad here. So you can draw one line on your tote board. Or is there an app for that?
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Am going to send you a list of my favorite Android utilities (all free) later today.
/ravi
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Thanks, that would be awesome
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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