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No Escape? Microsoft Is About to Eat Apple for Lunch

3 pointsby ericelliottover 8 years ago

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beezischillinover 8 years ago
There is a reason Apple doesn&#x27;t do a PC with a touchscreen and it&#x27;s simple, there is no good way to pull it off right, it sucks, it&#x27;s useless and it&#x27;s a gimmick.<p>The puck&#x27;s usefulness will depend entirely on the developers. Developers who don&#x27;t really pick up on Microsoft, Samsung or Google&#x27;s toys.<p>The TouchBar might be tiny, but they showed off zero day support for it from companies like Adobe, and that&#x27;s where the difference comes from.<p>While the Surface Studio looks sexy and is deliberately trying to mimic Apple, the fact that it runs Windows (10) on a high res screen is just a turn-off for me.<p>As someone who used to hate Apple with a passion and love Microsoft OSes and products unconditionally, I&#x27;ve finally had enough and switched to an Apple-ecosystem: while not perfect, the amount of things they consider for their products is astounding and last but not least, they ship with 3rd-party support already on the way.<p>And that&#x27;s a key difference to me as a developer, as a photographer, as a designer and artist and as a musician.