Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book

Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book by sbov on Thursday October 08, 2015 @11:27AM (#10353369)

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.

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Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book by jon-wood on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:16PM (#10353706)

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.

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Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book by muddi900 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @04:04PM (#10355728)

But that is on Apple. Copying music to an iPhone is about as cumbersome as Apple can make it without destroying their music business.

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Re:Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book by bluedino on Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:21PM (#10357543)

You just add it to playlist in iTunes

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