Why I WILL consider a Microsoft Tablet - But not an iPad
Simply because it does run Windows or something very close to it. I have and use a lot of software. WINDOWS software. Do I need an iPad? If I do I can't for the life of me figure out what software I would run on it that I also run on my main computer. A tablet that would let me run my software on either tablet or PC is a real useful thing. I've had an Android Tablet (well still have an Android tablet, and a good one Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet with 64Gb - except for email and calendar and an occasional pdf or ppt file it sits in the charger) and the problems were always transferring anything that I did with it to my main environment. (exception being EverNote).
One of the biggest bottlenecks and hassles that I have as a USER of mobile devices is that they either limit you to a very few things you can do, or they simply won't do the task you need to do in a way that let's you have your work product available for use when you get back to your main computer. If you are using an Apple desktop/laptop or a Windows based PC/laptop, using a different OS on a mobile device just leaves you with an incomplete solution. I'm always going to prefer using my QuadCore powered laptop when I have it on my desk for large data bases and complex spreadsheets and accounting programs, but when I go out of the office, that compact tablet that will function in the same environment is worth waaayy more than an android or iPad - cause I can do the same thing and make the same documents and files.
Case closed.
