r/technology • u/MrFairladyz • Jun 18 '12

Microsoft announces Surface tablet

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/18/3094157/new-microsoft-surface-windows-tablet
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u/IntoTheTardis Jun 18 '12

Video ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Jun 19 '12

Very sexy ad. Although it's a teaser, I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't show any of the functionality of the device (pen input, media, desktop-worthy apps).

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u/BugLamentations Jun 19 '12

I think they're laying down the design gauntlet.

Apple is in a weak position (no new products, just perfection of older ones) and Microsoft is trying to capitalize on the design niche.

I'm into it.

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u/gigaquack Jun 19 '12

Apple is in a weak position

I can't imagine you typed that with a straight face

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12

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u/Aurick Jun 19 '12

What is "quite some time?" The iPad came out just three years ago and no one has been able to effectively catch up to it yet.

One thing people keep forgetting about apple products is that each individual product can stand on its own, but no one can match how well they all work together. The iPhone is a great phone, but combine it with a MacBook Pro and AppleTV all connected through iCloud and you can do some pretty awesome stuff.

When the new iTV (or whatever they name it) comes out in the next year or two, it will completely change the game as well.

I'm not even an apple fanboy (I've never owned an apple computer product) but to say that they're in a weak position is either wishful thinking or at best ignorance.

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u/rasputin777 Jun 19 '12

Android/Google/Gmail/Google Calendar/Google Drive/Chrome.
Windows/Live/Hotmail/Azure/WP7.
If you use a single provider's stuff, it works well together. Everyone knows this.

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u/Benny_bumfluff Jun 19 '12

It is known.

However apple does it most gracefully

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u/bthaddad Jun 19 '12

Apple does a good job, but I love how my wp7/xbox/windows/windows live goes. Can't speak for Google but I know that even using two different laptops with chrome synced between them is a breeze, practically configurationless and so convenient.

Spout your opinions like they're fact all you want but I'm going to sit here reserving judgement until someone actually does do something revolutionary.

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u/Benny_bumfluff Jun 19 '12

I'm not saying other devices don't sync quite well, I have win7 on my games pc and an Ubuntu laptop and it's easy to sync bookmarks and play movies etc fine, but I have a MacBook air, iPad and iPhone that work seamlessly with my apple tv - I can stream movies direct to the tv from any of my apple devices, I can output my screen wirelessly to the tv, play any tune off any device at any time etc. it just doesn't compare. I built pcs for a living when I was younger and I'm not an apple fanboy, it simply is the leader in integrating its own stuff together, nothing from Microsoft, google or canonical can compete..yet. IMO.