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Originally Posted by stealthn
Wold you give up a ipad for it?  |
In a word - no. Not even close. My iPad3 is totally ingrained into my music life at this point. All of my charts are there, iRealB has not only the charts but a player app for practice. I can record directly to the iPad, have soft sythns, etc. Plus I can get email, calendar (iCal, exchange, google, etc), web, etc. Right now on the Surface I can't do most of that. It may get better, but by then where will the iPad/iOS be? The response and display on my iPad3 are better than the Surface, and I'm not even on the latest iPad.
I gave it to my wife to mess with. She does not use an iPad, and only recently got an iPhone. I showed her the basic way to use the Surface and she did not find it intuitive.
It will be interesting to watch this. I think RT is pretty bad right now compared to the competition. They will need to get more apps available and fix the OS and user experience (the bouncing back between Metro and desktop is fail). But this isn't 15 years ago when Apple was a minor player and they had the luxury of time. They are chasing now, and I don't know how agile Microsoft is as a company.
I'll have the iPad Mini here on Fri to mess with. We'll have a 3D viewer mocked up soon afterwards and be running some of our apps. We can't do that on RT because Unity isn't on Win8 yet (and may never be on RT).