Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
by sbov on Thursday October 08, 2015 @11:27AM
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Why are people trying to bend over backwards here? Let's step outside the startup world for some facts:
iPhone market share in the US is 43%. Macbook market share is 12%. So the vast majority of iPhone users are "risking" this.
Which is really not a risk at all, because if it really were a risk Apple would be shooting themselves in the foot. They would be killing one of their most successful products for the sake of some of their least.
Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
by jon-wood on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:16PM
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I don't know for sure how many iPhone users have ever plugged their device into a computer for anything other than a quick battery top up, but my hunch is most people just don't sync phones with computers any more, they sync them with iCloud or Google. I don't own an iPhone, but I've never even attempted to synchronise my phone with my laptop - contacts, calendar, and email come from Google, music from Spotify, and video from Netflix or Amazon. The closest I've come is copying some photos off the SD card.
Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
by muddi900 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @04:04PM
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But that is on Apple. Copying music to an iPhone is about as cumbersome as Apple can make it without destroying their music business.
Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
by bluedino on Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:21PM
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You just add it to playlist in iTunes
Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
by anjc on Thursday October 08, 2015 @11:32AM
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The only people that need to worry are professionals. Developers and so on. And they can decide themselves whether switching is a risk without a journalist saying that a good product isn't an alternative because of this risk.
The Microsoft hardware product line is arguably more complete than Apple's at this point, when you factor in the Xbox. There's minimal risk to casual users in switching.
Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
by pjc50 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @11:42AM
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For one thing, you'll have to use Windows iTunes, which is notoriously bad.
I find it very interesting that Apple is now the "default" laptop and Windows is the strange alternative that people are worried about switching to.
Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
by ForHackernews on Thursday October 08, 2015 @11:06PM
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> I find it very interesting that Apple is now the "default" laptop and Windows is the strange alternative that people are worried about switching to.
Only in a tiny minority of wealthy dev/artist types.
Historically, Apple absolutely would have been the risky platform to go for (I waited until their Intel laptops, using Boot Camp as an insurance policy). But these days people have iPhones, iPads, some even have Apple TVs... the Apple hardware ecosystem is actually far stronger than Microsoft's. You absolutely are risking that syncing with your iPhone etc will be worse.