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I don't think you're missing anything. Having the right apps matters a lot than the OS capabilities.
by ewzimm 10y ago
I don't think you're missing anything. Having the right apps matters a lot than the OS capabilities.
- wlesieutre 10y agoVery much agreed. I had a Surface Pro 3 for two years and sold it to get an iPad Pro 9.7 a few months ago. Much happier with this. Yeah, you can run Photoshop on the Surface, but for just sketching and digital painting, Procreate costs $6 and is far more touchscreen friendly. Once in a while I miss a piece of desktop software, but I have an old MacBook Air that I can get out if I really need blender or something.
- dzhiurgis 10y agoThe way things are going, I see all parties approaching zero sum. Hardware is nearly identical and software stack is approaching too as everything is moving into web apps (see Progressive Web Applications (where Apple is in fact lagging)). Serious Desktop Apps is not such a big thing anymore. iOS has all the Serious Desktop Apps already. Android too. So does MS. Sure there will always be some legacy code done in MS which is probably easier to port from 7 to 10 (and onwards) than into the web stack. But legacy is not what accounts for growth as so much new software is done on web stack. Also, if you look this way, Chromebooks also compete in this space.
- coldtea 10y ago>The way things are going, I see all parties approaching zero sum. Hardware is nearly identical and software stack is approaching too as everything is moving into web apps For the staff I do (image, audio, video, programming), that couldn't be further for the truth. For the rest, that stuff is technologically trivial to begin with (email viewing, writing a document, creating invoices, etc).