People are dumbasses. I had a tablet PC, heavy as crap. Laptop that rotates into a tablet, and as heavy as any laptop. But I've always known and always desperately wanted a tablet, because a handheld PC is god. I kept an eye on digital paper/ink, ala original Kindle, as I figured that, a flexible paper thin display, would be the breakthrough. But it hasn't advanced far enough, then came the iPad. I waited in line day one. You had all these apple fanbois at Tysons, and people we polling to see what the use would be.
9 out of ten said it would just be a toy they'd basically never use. Fast forward to today, and the tablet is god. I still can't believe people didn't understand how insanely awesome tablets were, and how useful they would be. Now everyone was always just waiting for the iPad. Hell, when the iPad came out nationally, everyone said the same thing, it was a toy. I was the same with MP3 players, bought my first, a 16mb Diamond Rio, in 99, long before the iPod was a twinkle in Jobs' ballsack. God, if only there had been a way to invest in those two things, I'd have been freaking rich.
But to this day, and more so as Tablets become even more popular, it drives me nuts the initial reaction to tablets, even when the iPad came out. How could a handheld, ultra light, compooter not be insanely awesome?
By the by, got my new Acer Iconia coming tomorrow. First Android with 1920x1200 resolution. Was going to wait for the Asus, but their constant delays, no release, and admitting they didn't have enough to meet demand, plus extra price? I anticipate buying a Windows 8 ARM tablet the day it's released, so figured this would keep me satisfied until the Surface comes out. It literally pains me to not have the Super IPS display, which is just freaking incredible if one has never seen it in action. Turned on, it makes viewing a tablet in bright sunlight as bright and easy as reading an iPad in a dark room. Its that freaking amazing, and it eats the battery like a two dollar hooker. And, even as an iPad fanboi turned Android fanboi when Android beat the crap out of iOS with ICS plus Transformer Prime by ASUS, Surface is going to pwn them all. No question about it. All the features plus the insanely awesome cover that's a keyboard? So long as Windows 8 on tablets doesn't suck, and there's plenty of third party app support and development, Microsoft is going to win.
And that win is going to be insane going forward. People are starting to abandon the PC and Windows for iPad since there's next to zero inter connectivity between them. Surface will ensure desktop Windows doesnt die out, which looked like a possibility as more people abandoned it for the completely isolated Android and iOS handhelds. Microsoft needs Surface to succeed or they're in deep crap, and it looks like they've got an insanely awesome, well designed, well supported, and top of the line unit coming down the pipes. Only thing that might rape them is high price and the two chipset, with standard IBM desktop being an over a grand price point. They should have taken the loss, went with the IBM chipset solely, and tried to destroy Apple by eating a couple hundred bucks for every unit sold until manufacturing costs lowered enough to break even.
