When I'm talking about Asus and Samsung I wasn't talking about Android I was talking about Windows 8 and RT. The problem with Apple is you're living in a walled garden, I don't want that.
Indeed. The half million apps in Apple's app store are just like a half million prison bars, audio components that support Airplay are like shackles, and on and on. The misery never stops.
OTOH, Windows HE, among other things, put a hip-hop "artist" right in my face the first time I opened its Music app, along with a dozen other ads. They're always lurking to the right and at least partly visible. I don't even have to explicitly navigate to a "store", as I do in iTunes; instead, Microsoft has given its ads equal billing with my stuff, putting everything on one seamless, infinitely scrolling roll. There's no menu bar where I can look for "Settings", and right-clicking does nothing, because the things I've learned over 20 years no longer apply, but after a while, I stumble upon the hidden upper-right corner one-pixel hotspot and choose "Settings" there (no small feat when using a VM or multiple monitors), and I find "Preferences". But when I select it, Microsoft merely tells me, "This app plays music from your Music Library", and there are no options to select, in particular, no way to get rid of the ads and make Microsoft's Music app do what Microsoft is telling me it does. I tell you, I've never felt so free.
As nice as the iPad is, it's not really what I want. I can guarantee you, when MS makes a tablet at a reasonable price and quality, a lot of people will be dumping their iPads. Especially students and business people.
Indeed. Just like the Zune killed the iPod, Microsoft's tablet will take over the mobile market.
What's actually happening is that people who buy one Apple product are buying more Apple products. No one whose last name isn't "Windows" is dying to "dump their iPad" and replace it with a Microsoft product. I can guarantee you.