This is a serious question. I really haven't come to a view about what it will mean for mobile musicians, so I'm interested in hearing other's views on this issue.
Will the surface take an market share? Is it just too late for microsoft to get in on this market, and what will it do for their manufacturing partners, who, by all accounts are not happy at all.
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Don't know about RT but if Surface Pro is a true full OS and it's priced well (around a grand), I wouldn't touch an iPad again. Built in USB? Access to the filesystem? Real multitasking? Even with ACP and virtual MIDI, I can't use iOS for music making without jailbreaking for iFile and Backgrounder. With Surface, I wouldn't have to. I'm not a fan of the interface still, but on paper, Surface is the clear winner. Having the ACTUAL FL Studio (even FL5) on a Surface versus three or four iOS apps that you have to copy and paste stuff into and out of to make a whole song? I'll take a Surface Pro.
I hope iOS devs take a serious look at Windows Phone 8. I'm not sure what the hardware and software limitations are yet but I hope it's the mess Android is.
Don't know about RT but if Surface Pro is a true full OS and it's priced well (around a grand), I wouldn't touch an iPad again. Built in USB? Access to the filesystem? Real multitasking? Even with ACP and virtual MIDI, I can't use iOS for music making without jailbreaking for iFile and Backgrounder. With Surface, I wouldn't have to. I'm not a fan of the interface still, but on paper, Surface is the clear winner. Having the ACTUAL FL Studio (even FL5) on a Surface versus three or four iOS apps that you have to copy and paste stuff into and out of to make a whole song? I'll take a Surface Pro.
I hope iOS devs take a serious look at Windows Phone 8. I'm not sure what the hardware and software limitations are yet but I hope it's the mess Android is.
Don't know about RT but if Surface Pro is a true full OS and it's priced well (around a grand), I wouldn't touch an iPad again. Built in USB? Access to the filesystem? Real multitasking? Even with ACP and virtual MIDI, I can't use iOS for music making without jailbreaking for iFile and Backgrounder. With Surface, I wouldn't have to. I'm not a fan of the interface still, but on paper, Surface is the clear winner. Having the ACTUAL FL Studio (even FL5) on a Surface versus three or four iOS apps that you have to copy and paste stuff into and out of to make a whole song? I'll take a Surface Pro.
I hope iOS devs take a serious look at Windows Phone 8. I'm not sure what the hardware and software limitations are yet but I hope it's the mess Android is.
I'm disappointed in that the product is far from finished, apparently. The product looks good but they didn't give any details of any sort practically about anything, even technical like how much ram, much less less when it will be available and how much it will cost. I think, in order to really make a splash, they should've waited until the product was truly ready.
It is hard to tell if making apps for the pad and phone will be easy and how much back end they have striped out of the OS at its various levels to make it work.
I understand some pads will have some version of the laptop/Netbook OS. Which could mean that the "real" software from the desktop could run on them.
Don't know if that will be an advantage or not. Seems like they are taking the oppisite view of Apple and seeing the pad and phone as extensions of a PC (which works towards their traditional software stratagy) and not a totaly new interface. Judging from the stand mouse and keyboard attachments.
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