Apple fans seem to thing anything Apple brings out is perfect and to suggest otherwise is heretical. Given that I think fanboys give up their intellectual freedom to the vendor or product they religiously follow, I tend to wear the Apple Heretic badge with honor — and thus I’m going to point out the technologies the Microsoft Surface 2 and Nokia 2520 products have that the new iPad Air lacks. I’m not arguing that loyal Apple fans will switch, but I am suggesting that Apple no longer owns the gold standard for tablets.
Anyone who starts an argument saying that the fans of a company have 'religious views and will have a cow' if someone dares oppose the argument, has already admitted their opposing religious views.
You don't get something without losing something else. Putting a magnetic charger in an iPad would mean a divergence of having a single charger for the tablet, phone (usually multiple in a house) and music player. The weight of these will not often pull the charger out, but feel free to blame your own clumsiness on Apple breaking your tablets and laptops (non Apple obviously). I would prefer, in this instance to leave the status quo. But the Surface is a new product with a new propriety plug. That's a good thing, but Apples method is not a bad thing either.
The idea that Apple want to sell more devices is...insightful. Do making Surface Tablets with an "optional purchase keyboard" that is necessary to use the product to it full potential any different? Any different at all? Ignoring this cost in your article yet saying that Apple want you to buy an iPad so that you buy a Macbook (big stretch by the way) leaves an obvious void in your argument.
You may want to bump up the specs of the Surface2 to 64GB (what about 128GB?) with an additional expense or have a need for a USB. (This argument is getting old, but I work in the cloud using Skydrive and Dropbox anyway), but that's a choice for the consumer. Go for it. A cheap memory boost is great. It's just a different approach. The big memory users in iPads are video and music, all being directly available from the Apple Cloud. Unlimited storage for less than 50c per week.
You have clearly missed the opportunity of comparing the products and just cementing your own view as being an Apple Hater, which has got to be worse than a person who speaks good things about a product that has clearly defined the tech space. The iPad simply hasn't gone down a direction to the impossible Half Empty Holy Grail of tech devices that you want. Different strokes for different folks. It doesn't make the Surface 2 a bad product, geesh, it's a good product, but it certainly doesn't blow Apple out of the tree with it's "cool sounding" Central Processing Unit.
You mentioned you have a phone, a 7" tablet, a full sized tablet, 2 broken laptops and you probably have a desktop too. The iPad Air is a lighter and faster tablet that fits in that space, nothing more. I don't need a device that tries to do everything and that's what the Surface is trying to do. But it's not an iPad, so it'll be heavier, larger and have all these usb's and things stuck all over it making it even heavier and larger. No thanks.
This is how you write a real article.It puts them head to head and equally throws accolades and criticism in each camp where it feels it's deserved.
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Feature/362084,showdown-microsoft-surface-2-vs-apple-ipad-air.aspx
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What's Missing in the iPad Air
Posted by: Rob Enderle October 28, 2013 05:00 AMApple fans seem to thing anything Apple brings out is perfect and to suggest otherwise is heretical. Given that I think fanboys give up their intellectual freedom to the vendor or product they religiously follow, I tend to wear the Apple Heretic badge with honor — and thus I’m going to point out the technologies the Microsoft Surface 2 and Nokia 2520 products have that the new iPad Air lacks. I’m not arguing that loyal Apple fans will switch, but I am suggesting that Apple no longer owns the gold standard for tablets.
You don't get something without losing something else. Putting a magnetic charger in an iPad would mean a divergence of having a single charger for the tablet, phone (usually multiple in a house) and music player. The weight of these will not often pull the charger out, but feel free to blame your own clumsiness on Apple breaking your tablets and laptops (non Apple obviously). I would prefer, in this instance to leave the status quo. But the Surface is a new product with a new propriety plug. That's a good thing, but Apples method is not a bad thing either.
The idea that Apple want to sell more devices is...insightful. Do making Surface Tablets with an "optional purchase keyboard" that is necessary to use the product to it full potential any different? Any different at all? Ignoring this cost in your article yet saying that Apple want you to buy an iPad so that you buy a Macbook (big stretch by the way) leaves an obvious void in your argument.
You may want to bump up the specs of the Surface2 to 64GB (what about 128GB?) with an additional expense or have a need for a USB. (This argument is getting old, but I work in the cloud using Skydrive and Dropbox anyway), but that's a choice for the consumer. Go for it. A cheap memory boost is great. It's just a different approach. The big memory users in iPads are video and music, all being directly available from the Apple Cloud. Unlimited storage for less than 50c per week.
You have clearly missed the opportunity of comparing the products and just cementing your own view as being an Apple Hater, which has got to be worse than a person who speaks good things about a product that has clearly defined the tech space. The iPad simply hasn't gone down a direction to the impossible Half Empty Holy Grail of tech devices that you want. Different strokes for different folks. It doesn't make the Surface 2 a bad product, geesh, it's a good product, but it certainly doesn't blow Apple out of the tree with it's "cool sounding" Central Processing Unit.
You mentioned you have a phone, a 7" tablet, a full sized tablet, 2 broken laptops and you probably have a desktop too. The iPad Air is a lighter and faster tablet that fits in that space, nothing more. I don't need a device that tries to do everything and that's what the Surface is trying to do. But it's not an iPad, so it'll be heavier, larger and have all these usb's and things stuck all over it making it even heavier and larger. No thanks.
This is how you write a real article.It puts them head to head and equally throws accolades and criticism in each camp where it feels it's deserved.
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Feature/362084,showdown-microsoft-surface-2-vs-apple-ipad-air.aspx