Dave Kap

corrections said:

sistrunk05 said:

cpenzone said:

Looks cumbersome even if it had worked.

Let's think about what was shown in that 22 sec demo.....Could it be that some functions are not meant to split into two screens?  Maybe that map app needs extra coding to be used in a two screen format.  From what I understand is that Microsoft has asked android developers to use their 'common sense' when developing apps that could benefit from the use of both screens.  Again this device is still in development (i.e. the developers' workshop sponsored by Microsoft is being held this week).  If people don't like a product/brand that's fine, but let's not use a 22 sec poorly executed demo as the defining moment for a product in development. 

Do you imagine that the demo presenter on stage was just winging it? You don't imagine that his attempt to spread a specific app across both panels was planned out in advance? You think he picked the wrong app? 

No, it just wasn't working properly. There could be many reasons for that, and clearly he expected it to work. But when your demo crashes, and you don't even understand why and don't have a backup, and you're demonstrating to developers you expect to support your platform, that's significant, this far into the "shipping soon" period. 

The fact that the Verge didn't really care about it makes it clear that Microsoft isn't storming into the tablet market with some awesome, refined new product category that will immediately let users pick between Win 10 and Android apps and dive into this Courier wet dream without a price tag. 

It's Essential-ly vaporware bullshit with great product management graphics, just like the whole Windows 10 presentation deck itself, showing how apps were going to scale from Windows Phones right up to $10,000 PC whiteboards. Sugar howling in a vortex of hot air -- call it cotton candy but don't try to build a blanket out of it to keep warm. 

Abalos65 said:

I was so happy that the editorials of DED stopped appearing for some time. Sad to see them back again.