Dades wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 17:15:
Me thinks he doth protest too much.
Me?
I don't know what I'm protesting. iOS and Android suck for most things. It's nice to see someone trying to change that. The change is not convincing, and it may come at the expense of the desktop, but I've called this a hail mary in the past.
I don't see much damage to the desktop because the mainstream coverage of WP8 is absolutely glowing. The nerd reports hate it, but it's not being made for us and few of us will early adopt. Given how many people here are still on XP and mocking Windows 7, that was probably going to happen, anyway. I haven't bothered with any of the betas and have no plans to buy it. Let other people do what's essentially a beta test of a new UI.
And there's a chance the Surface will work out. The Pro sounds awesome, assuming I can dock it to a monitor, assuming it has decent battery life, and assuming it isn't as stupidly slow as my netbook was. Those are big assumptions and the reason I'm not holding my breath.