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Originally Posted by djgreedo
While companies like Microsoft are taking their time trying to cram features into their products so they can do whatever users want, Apple simply beats everyone to market with a stripped-down product (i.e. cheaper to make, easier to keep slim, better battery life) that appeals to people who don't really care about functionality or interoperability.
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3.5 million people in three months buying and ipad in a market where before they sold 3.5 million units in (what?) 5 years, and all of them not caring about functionality and interoperability? I am sorry but it's impossible to buy that. The reason ms haven't released a tablet is not the ludicrous "being busy cramming features" statement, it's because they are 4 years late with coming up with a decent mobile os, it's because there is internal havoc of competing departments within the company coming up with non functional prototypes such as the courier (which in typical ms style is only leaked to get some vapourware attention away from the competition to be then dismissed), wrecking their acquisitions such as danger for kids phones that get canceled after 45 days while selling 500 units, relying on their partners for tablets with windows desktop the very same partners (hp) that after official presentations ditch them and embarrass them, because they don't yet have a good software app store or an ecosystem to integrate it with it, it's about letting others, namely apple, create markets for them and then entering, etc. etc.
It's all that and more but being busy cramming features on their supposed tablet/reader they ain't.
(It sounded really humorous to me, you saying "better battery life" for apple products and in the very same sentence that these products are for those who don't care about functionality...)
And let me just ask if MS is so good and great, how come they force you to buy from the "terrible" itunes, and when someone asks you for you modern mobile os tablet from ms you have nothing to show them? Are they cramming features into their itunes variant too? Boy will this thing be choke full of features after 7+ years of it being non existent.