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lmac said:

What's a computer? A computer is something you do work on. An iPad is something you consume media and play games on.

Visiting the App Store will help you avoid posting nonsense like this. 

The medium/device of preference has become just as important the medium/device that is traditionally best for the job. This has been going on for years now. 

And to be fair, it's also about what you consider "work" to be. The defitinition is totally fluid at present. 

mobird said:

I don't think Steve would be a happy camper with Cook's behavior. Steve probably has rolled over a couple of times...

Steve? Who's this Steve I keep hearing about, and to whom people keep attributing thoughts and feelings? 

Is is it even sane to assign attitudes to an imaginary version of a dead person five years after his death? 

Nope. 

"destruction of emblematic U.S. consumer goods"

For which they'd apparently sell their souls to acquire. 

The hilarity is real. 

Surface has always been a non-starter. 

Apparently it's being billed as "just a reference device for the rest of the industry."

This is somehow acceptable, in some alternate dimension taken to be this one. 

And Windows Phone, err.... Windows Mobile?
Windows Mobile Phone? Whatever ridiculous name they've foisted on this abomination, it's a total failure. Readily apparent upon its release, to all except MS and the hapless folk they managed to con into buying one. 

They're essentially still running on the old Windows + Office snoozefest. Some of which are now "services."

"Servicing" the competition, essentially.

Oh, but they do have those Big Ass Glasses.
That no one can really buy, unless you're a developer and you've got $3000 laying around, or some such nonsense. 

Nothing is certain until the actual release.