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pjmlptoday at 8:37 AM1 replyview on HN

Microsoft and PC makers have long shown how the iPad should be,with Surface and 2-1 devices, Apple naturally wants to rather sell two devices.


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Clositoday at 8:58 AM

The surface laptops have ended up being good laptops and mediocre/bad tablets IMO. While technically the same on the surface, there is something about the dedicated UX of an iPad that makes it a completely different experience in reality.

If you replace an iPad you bought for $350 a year ago with a $600 surface, it will be a markedly worse experience as a tablet. Nothing has yet combined the two without comprimise - you either get a device which is a bad laptop and a good tablet, or a bad tablet and a good laptop.

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