Apps are pretty small in size, usually only a few MBs, the Netflix App is less than 3.5 MBs. IF the Netflix App would work for me it would be faster to just launch the App rather than launch the browser, go to the Netflix site and manually login.
Sure they are small, but they could add up over time. Plus, when you take enthusiasts who will run ccleaner almost daily to clean up unnecessary registry entries to try and improve performance, it just doesn't seem necessary to have an app for something a website can easily do.
#2). imcompatibilites with something else installed on the computer
What kind of incompatibilities, do you have an example because I don't see how this would be an issue.
I'm imaging scenarios where the Charms bar sharing might stop working. Or, thinking about situations on my smartphone where say the Swype keyboard app doesn't like the Google Chrome app and the backspace key seems to be all messed up and we are awaiting updates from both. <--Cuz that's currently happening on my Samsung S3.
Apps are often updated for bug fixes and feature additions or changes, desktop applications get updates too so I don't see why this is an issue.
I'm saying that typically you access Netflix through a web browser. With the website, fixes and feature add-ons happen at the website level only. So, once they make that change you have it, without any effort on your part. With an installed app, you have to use bandwidth and be sure to keep all of these apps updated or potentially have technical issues due to bugs, or are missing features.
I don't give anyone access to my profile, if you do then yes I would be concerned if I were you.
Sometimes at work, after discovering an issue, I have to let somebody sit down at my computer and see exactly what is going on. Sometimes these fixes aren't 10 second changes, so I walk away and do something else while dubugging happens. So, I'd prefer to not have all of this stuff integrated where somebody could easily just waltz into the rest of this stuff.
Normally nobody else uses my profile, but it's not our of the realm of possibilities.
Exactly, which is another advantage of a Windows RT tablet over an Android or iPad tablet, iPad users have wanted user profile support for a long time. It's not only about the kids, my wife and I have different interests and we don't want each others Apps getting in the way. There is even a game that both my wife and I like, she has her scores and progress and I have mine.
Well, i haven't used the Surface RT to know whether it actually does user switching.
Second, I have a spending limit of $400 for tablet style devices. I simply cannot justify any more money that this for a device with such limitations. Anything north of $400, and we are in laptop territory. I've never found a single tablet that comes even remotely close to the feature set of a full fledged laptop. (keyboards, mice, more storage, more ram, full app support, multiple os options, optical drives, multiple usb ports, multiple monitor support, hardwire network options, etc). Unfortunately, the surface tablets are going to be priced higher than I want to spend.