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2012-02-24, 05:46

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Originally Posted by Kraetos View Post
So touch isn't good enough for Office on Windows tablets, so they have to include the legacy desktop interface...

But on iPad, it is good enough?

At best, this is awkward hipocrisy, at worst, it's a tacit omission that iOS is more capable than Metro.
Making inconsistent, divergent design decisions in a large corporations isn't hypocrisy or incompetence at the respective team's level, though it is arguably incompetence in leadership.

Here's one thing I'm not getting anyway: people whine at the Samsung Galaxy Tab for being too much like an iPad, and then they whine at the Windows 8 tablet concept for being too little like an iPad.

Take the Samsung Galaxy Note, for instance: yeah, so maybe it's too awkward as a phone, too small as a proper tablet, and neither here nor there. And maybe we should criticize them for lacking the insight on what it takes to make a great product without the "see what sticks" approach. And, certainly, their "LOL, Apple customers are losers who stand in line" approach to marketing is awful (though, was Apple's "Windows is for generic business suits" really that much better?). But at least they've actually delivered a product that can do things neither the iPhone nor the iPad is capable of. It has a real pressure-sensitive screen*, so it supports real digitizer pens, unlike the pretense pens available for the iPad.

*) Though I haven't found out how many pressure points it can distinguish.
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