Bill Gates: iPad Users 'Frustrated'

[Humanist_Activist]

67. Bill Gates just made an argument about why tablets will never replace PCs, they are supplements...

at most. Same for smart phones, etc, and no the Surface Pro isn't a suitable replacement either, because tablets, due to their form factor, lack the flexibility and robustness of a full fledged desktop or laptop computer.

Not to say that tablets have no options, whether its the Surface, Android, or Ipad, all 3 can have physical keyboards, through bluetooth. Same for mice and some other accessories. Hell, I was able to use a Wii controller as a video game controller on my Android phone, without buying any accessories. Gotta love industry standards.

But, they are still limited, get a wifi only tablet(so not tied to any specific service) and try to connect to the internet outside of wifi areas. Good luck, while me, on my netbook, can tether it through USB to my phone, and use its 4G network connection, at no extra charge from the cell company. Not to mention my netbook has over four times the storage of a Surface Pro, and its RAM and hard drive can be upgraded.

And this brings us to software, Windows 8, the OS with two personalities, on one hand, its default, tablet interface, is inadequate for use on a desktop PC, while the desktop is retained, but it takes third party hacks to make it usable with minimal interruptions from the tabletOS part.

This is going to divide up the application development for Windows, with Windows 8 "apps" through the Store, which will be gimped and geared towards tablets, and full fledged Windows Applications like we are used to, like Office. The problem is that interoperability is minimal, and instead of having two operating system, you have one.

The key is this, Tablets, and Metro, iOS, and Android, are mostly for content consumption in more casual environments, whereas MacOS, Windows 8 Desktop, Linux, and many other OSes are mostly for content creation, development, writing, etc. Different interfaces, for different devices and uses, unfortunately Microsoft thought it would be great to combine the two, I'm still baffled as to why.