With Surface Tablet, Microsoft Stands Alone

LOL.

My setups are, as I believe you intended to point out, quiet superfluous, as I personally DON’T NEED to have any of that power or precision for anything I am really doing.

It’s a kind of hobby, just tuning for the sake of tuning.... nothing more.

If I had something I was really up to that needed that in my home or place of residence, I would likely not be the type to post on FR. LOL.

I just do it all for the challenge and time sink.

LOL.

My setups are, as I believe you intended to point out, quite superfluous, as I personally DON’T NEED to have any of that power or precision for anything I am really doing.

It’s a kind of hobby, just tuning for the sake of tuning.... nothing more.

If I had something I was really up to that needed that in my home or place of residence, I would likely not be the type to post on FR. LOL.

I just do it all for the challenge and time sink.

As I said, you dredged up something from 5 years ago to support your argument, cherry-picking

I pointed out that when Apple launched their very first iPhone, Steve Jobs did pre-announced months before they were ready to launch, same as Steve Ballmer has done with the surface tablet. If I remember correctly, the Applebots were in ecstasy over this “awesome” Steve Jobs announcement at the time.
Same Applebot crazies now claim they are outraged that Steve Ballmer has announced surface, months before its ready to launch. One can't take you jokers seriously can one?

“Hardly, I stated the most recent example from Apple a week ago.”

I don't care about any of that. The comparable announcement was the original iPhone announcement, given that while Microsoft has been making hardware for decades(computer mouse, keyboards,XBOX etc) they have never actually made their own computers, leaving it instead to the OEMS to make. So again, the very first time Microsoft is announcing their own tablet(major), they have announced it months before launch, just like Steve Jobs did with the original iPhone announcement, which is not even as major as the surface announcement, given that Apple was already making the iPods

“So years later, MS uses the same talking points for the Surface as Steve Jobs did with the iPad”

Umm..no.
The surafe is a hybrid, aimed at productivity as well as consumption. The Surface Pro doubles up as both a tablet, and a Windows/Intel ultrabook laptop that runs all the millions of Windows 7 programs. That is quite different from what the iPad is. Apple is not selling the Pad as a MacBook Pro replacement.

It is certainly applicable. One can round down to the next whole number, as well as up. It is accepted practice

Accepted practice for who?
Applebot crazies who on the one hand attack Steve Ballmer for announcing the surface tablet a few months begore launch, but then at the same time laud Steve Jobs for announcing the iPhone 6 months before it was ready to luanch?
FACT: 5.67 months is NOT equal to 5 months. 5.67 Rounded to the nearest whole number gives you SIX, not five, because 5.67 months is closer to 6 months than it is to 5 months.
Can you get that it your thick Applebot head?
See my post # 130 here for how it works, Mr. Dummy.:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2897208/posts?page=130#130

Microsoft copied Steve Job’s talking points for the iPad. Point for point, a comparison and duplication of what makes the iPad great is how Microsoft described the Surface. An iPad clone. And Microsoft botched it when Microsoft’s Windows president, Steve Sinofsky, had to deal with a frozen manufacturing mock-up of his non-existent tablet live on stage at the beginning of his presentation. Major fail of the Surface. Major fail of copying Apple’s presentation style.

See the video at this link here...

Video Offers Side-by-Side Look at Microsoft & Steve Jobs Keynotes

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/video_offers_side-by-side_look_at_microsoft_steve_jobs_keynotes/

Apple is not selling the Pad as a MacBook Pro replacement.

One of the few things we agree about. Apple positioned the iPad as part of their eco-system, recognizing there is a need for a separate desktop, laptop, tablet, and hand-held pocket device. With iCloud sychronizing content among the devices so one can seamlessly move from device to device regardless of where they are. This is where Apple excels, looking ahead to where the ball will be, and not to the past as Microsoft does in copying Apple after a product has been out several years.

All-in-one machines are not a new concept, but the problem is that they can't do any one thing particularly well. Good luck to Microsoft, I wish them well in trying to make the Surface double up as a tablet, laptop, desktop and boat anchor, but not everyone is going to be happy with it.

Accepted practice for who?

Accepted practice for the world. And enough of the name-calling ("Mr. Dummy"), it makes you look immature. I have a very high I.Q., and you probably have one as well. Let's focus on debating points.

When it comes to timeframes, it is accepted practice to round down a time to the next whole number. For instance, your age. One will announce how old they are in whole years, regardless of the fractional years embodied in months beyond their birthday.

If you are 20 years and 9 months, you generally tell people you are 20. In the eyes of the law, you can't tell a bartender you are 21 and get an alcoholic drink. Try that and you are breaking the law. So this is accepted practice for law enforcement. Think it over. The law says it is so, so I did not make this up as being accepted practice. Are you now going to call a police officer Mr. Dummy?

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