Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] Why Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 Sales Soared as Apple's iPad Sales Plunged (AAPL, MSFT)

I did warn of this when the people on this list dissed surface. Underestimating MS because their first efforts are lame is always risky.

iPads need a standard type cover FREE from Apple and a way to market and emphasize the many business uses that magazines like iPad / iPhone life do a great job of emphasizing to fight back.

iPads are great casual business machines with the right software and right keyboard cover. A Biz iPad bundle from Apple with a special business / productivity filtered app store and keyboard cover, would be one way of many to reverse this. Including a trackpad and bluetooth mouse support would help too.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:03 AM, 'Tom' tseals4@centurylink.net [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Yes, I love my iPad at home but at work everyone is ditching their iPads for Surfaces including me. I'm not talking about just a few but almost everyone in our department as budgets allow. Nice and light and it has MS Office and Outlook. The Surface really is more of a laptop. I think that there are great uses for either one. It depends on what you want or need to do.

I'm amazed at the uses for my iPad at home as I'm using it for a lot more things than I would have thought. I have a Kindle as well but I still prefer real books and magazines as opposed to e-readers.

Tom

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Subject: Re: [iPad] Why Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 Sales Soared as Apple's iPad Sales Plunged (AAPL, MSFT)

But in all seriousness it is a very nice device. Its a laptop replacement, but the iPad is not a laptop replacement (although it may be for a minority).
The iPad is a light, mainly consumption device, hence it has no full OS. Surface is the opposite. Id hate an iPad to have OSX, teeny screen, no mouse, no real keyboard, rather use a real laptop. But it fills a gap, small though that gap may be.

Make a device to be everything? Or make a few devices to complement the needs of the day, and integrate them tightly so you can flip from one to the other?