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Originally Posted by stonetools
I think that if you think only of hardware and specs, you're going to misswhat's going to decide the issue. I'm bettingthat the hardware and even the core apps are going to be fine, but that's not going to be enough to cut it for the consumer.
What the average consumer thinks about is not SD cards, or USB ports, or other hardware features. Rather, they'll be thinking, "What can I do with this?" . That means apps
The genius of the iPad launch was that Apple made sure that on Day One consumers knew how to use the iPad and what they could do with it.
"If you want a watch a video, there was an app for that"
"If you want to paint a picture, there was an app for that"
"If you want to a book to read to your children, there was even an app for that".
With the ARM Surface, there is at this point no Surface App Store. There is a Windows Phone app store, but we don't know that Windows Phone apps can run gracefully or even at all on the Surface.
Now Microsoft does have its killer app-Microsoft Office. For the average consumer and business user , there is only one real word processor and one real spreadsheet. I'm sure there will be a an MS Offioce suite for both versions of the Surface by launch date-that should be a given. Will that be enough to get the Surface off to a good start? Dunno.
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No, MS should not copy the shortcomings of "other" companies thinking that is the way to go, it isn't. SD and USB are required by everyone. As for apps, there are already a million apps for Windows.