Let's do a little trimming, editing and pushing things around in your post:
Can you easily create content on an iMac or Macbook?
Whether *most* people use the device in question for content creation does not determine whether it is a computer. I know dozens of people who use their tablets to produce (art, music, video, photography). Might not be a business computer, but it is definitely a computer.
Microsoft should have been there to take the lead. The android ecosystem just doesn't work well -- too many disparate devices, too much choice. People like uniformity and simplicity. They weren't.
They weren't positioned to and had no real hope of being.
Then Jobs died.
Not sure how MS capitalizes on that.
Then ios5 wiped out the maps application off your phone.
No, that was 6. And WP did not have something better at this point.
Then the iphone5 came out which didn't work with any of your existing power cables and docks.
Works fine with the cable that comes with it though. Not a misstep, its a transition. Not something significant enough for MS to make much headway, as it's not like WP7/8 and Win8 has a big hardware ecosystem with consistent accessories to leverage.
The high end market where you'd get an iphone as it just worked well now had stumbling blocks. It wasn't an obvious choice any more.
1 minor one going by what you've listed.
Then apple's share price fell.
What the hell does that have to do with anything? Your whole premise makes no sense.
This is how the US authorities go after everything - with massive, overwhelming, completely unnecessary force. Ever see the video of the invasion of Kim's compound?
Except that was the New Zealand authorities. Acting at the insistence and direction of US authorities to be sure, though.
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What percentage of the tablet buying public or like your husband? Enough to make the surface pro a success?
This is where we get into what is the definition of fail. I think there is a healthy number of people like you who will buy it for the same reasons. But I think that number will probably get them something like 1 million sales per quarter.
So is that a failure or success? I believe compared to the goals Microsoft has set itself, that is failure.
If that's so, then if I were heading their mapping effort, I would be nervous.
They are thinking 'no compromises'. But they are likely mistaken. 'Include everything and everyone will be happy' is not a true statement.
Indeed, sort of what I came to say. If he wants to eliminate mandatory basic science education, then voting needs to be restricted to those with the basic education to understand all the issues.
Nobody asks if Apple products are expensive.
I suppose you're correct. They come out and state they are as a fact, rather than ask it as a question.
It almost makes me miss the days of the test pattern, when they would at least have the decency to turn off the transmitter when they had nothing of value to transmit,
If the transmitter was turned off, where was the test pattern coming from?
Flying cars can go over security fences and other barriers. Only rich people will be allowed do have them.
BGR has a pretty good historical analysis here:
Would he take more than a $90 hit if he bought the transformer, and then resold it a month or two later if he didn't like it?
Seems like the poor quality of a $90 tab might sour him before he ever got to trying a well executed one like the transformer.
It's interesting, these "metallic" dealer logos on cars thing seems to be common most places in the country, but it is virtually absent in southern California. The most they can get away with here is putting a dealer plate frame, and most people swap those out in short order. I always wondered at that as LA etc. are pretty far from being ad media free in any other way.
In fact they are hyper brand aware as near as I can tell.
With your bare hands?!?
