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The Surface isn't ugly, because Microsoft has used what's currently the dirtiest of dirty words: "innovation", and made a keyboard that's sympathetic to the device. Wedding a keyboard to a tablet doesn't make it a better tablet. What the OEMs have shown this week is that they understand that proposition not one jot. The interesting part about the iPad is that it's the first computing device that gets to go with their owners into that environment. They're looking to get away from their computers and concentrate on each other. Each attendee almost certainly has a proper computer back at their desk, but sitting in a meeting clattering away at a keyboard doesn't work which is why people actually switch modes and go into a meeting room to conflab in the first place. The iPad is very sympathetic to that environment because it's not the primary activity in the room. The important part though is how they turned their attention from the meeting to the data on the screen and back again in a fluid way that, hopefully, didn't piss off all the other participants. Think about the last meeting you were in where one of your cohorts brought their iPad. You don't need to choose between a real computer or an iPad, you likely need both.
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What's not clear to me is why people think that Windows 8 running on something that looks like an iPad should suddenly become a clamshell laptop. Real computers need keyboards, which is why desktops and laptops have them. Yet I wonder how many engineers or managers over at the OEMs actually use keyboards with their iPads. Yet in bizarro-OEM-land it's like they can't conceive of a world where people don't use their iPads with keyboards.
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People get along just fine with their iPad entirely unnumbered by plasticy panels of microswitches. the classic "solution seeking problem" that so often seems to define the work we do.īecause we know that most people don't use a keyboard with the iPad, and even those who own a keyboard don't use it all the time, we know that the iPad doesn't need one. Oh - half of the time we forget to do that and try and foist onto the market things that it doesn't need - i.e. The market demands, we provide a solution. I'm a believer in that generally as a community we technicians are able to provide the market with what it needs. The only problem with that premise is that the iPad isn't a computer. Yes, I totally agree that if you want to input information into a computer you need a keyboard. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. None of them has worked as hard as Microsoft and produced something innovative that moves the story forward like the upcoming Surface devices do.īut that whole idea of keyboards on post-PC devices? I won't rest until they're expunged from the post-PC proposition. (I'm indebted to Peter Bright for pointing out that the Samsung ATIV Windows RT device doesn't currently have a keybaord option.) The only thing the manufacturers have done is taken old designs, refreshed them, and made it possible to take the keyboard off. All ten are presented with keyboard in tow and, to my mind, that positions them as netbooks. Of the eleven devices, ten of them are irrevocably meshed together with the idea of the keyboard. Three Windows RT devices, and eight Windows 8 devices. I've created a little spreadsheet of what was announced.
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But no - instead of kit worthy of Windows 8, we get a bunch of revamped netbooks, a technology the market rejected around the same time its love affair with the iPad started. Now that Windows 8 is done with its magical reimagined touchable-ness the OEMs can now all get together and start creating fantastic kit that spanks the boys and girls of Cupertino. We're two-and-a-half years into the "iPad market", and I don't think anyone would say that product has been a failure. I'm left regarding the whole affair with the same affection that I might feel for a cat that's sicked up a hairball made of plastic and silicon on my front-room carpet. L ast week gave us the first chance to see what the OEMs had in mind when it comes to Windows 8 tablets.