“Windows 8 was given one of its earliest tests against the iPad it was designed to beat in a comparison video (below) showing differences between the two,” Electronista reports.
The contest focuses mostly “on differences in design philosophy,” Electronista reports. “Windows 8’s live tiles are more dynamic and customizable than those on the iPad, WinRumors noted, but the iOS home screen’s grid of icons was also easy to use.”
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Electronista reports, “While a significant exploration, the showdown also underscores Apple’s major advantage of a real, shipping product. Windows 8 in its Developer Preview is still missing core features like calendars, e-mail, and the Windows Store. As a pre-public beta, the OS is still roughly a year away from release and can’t be tested on more power-efficient ARM tablets or the 2012 Intel hardware Microsoft is counting on.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Real* vs. vapor. By the time Windows 8 ships on an ARM-powered tablet, what will be the actual Apple product available? iPad 3 on an A6 with iOS 6 with a Retina display, at the every least. We can’t wait to see that video.
*We iOS devs have been running iOS 5 on our iPad 2’s for months.
Would make more sense to compare it to an Android tablet. I mean it is only fair to compare two POS, that no one will buy to each other!
“he 2012 Intel hardware Microsoft is counting on”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Battery life: 2 hours
yes it makes complete sense to compare a product with mere weeks of final testing to a product that has at least a year of major work left.
sorry i had skip it, its not worth watching
I started watching but it was excruciatingly boring, so I ‘d say the Windows tablet is pretty underwhelming even as hype.
Is this a repeat of comparing an iPod to a Zune? Because we know who won there.
Was it Zune?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but he didn’t mention iOS 5 at the start (he may later; I lost interest). It’s incredible to me that anyone would seriously compare a real product with something a year away (or more, knowing Microsoft) from reality. As if iOS will stand still and wait for Win8 to catch up.
Whenever possible windows seems to just flip the screen and say “See its different”. It amazes me how much things don’t change.
There is no login button at the top of MDN’s articles right now. Anyone else seeing this or is it the fact that I’m at work on some archaic version of IE?
It’s your ultra backward Internet F***splorer
What year is it there, still using IE? OMG!
If this W8 os can deliver a decent file system, it might find a lot of users.
After using my iPad for over a year now, I still find myself extremely crippled by not being able to easily move files among apps.
Let’s say I have 20 files I want move from one app to another. Oh just forget it is so retarded. Why not give the user the ******** OPTION ***** to quit the app when transferring 1 file at a time.
Common!
I’m not sure what you mean. Why would you want to transfer files between apps in an iPad? Isn’t a Mac better suited to this?
That’s what the cloud is for, and you can use Dropbox until IOS 5 comes out.
File systems are the old way of thinking, move into the now.
Next…
Cloud isn’t an option for a lot of people that still have crap upload speed on their net at home. Mine is 5000 down but only 640 up. Cloud is almost useless to me. When I do get a few 0000 up then maybe.
To bad we cant use a HDD connected to an APE or the timecapsule for this crap. N is way waster than my net.
Common? Did you mean come on?
Dictionary:
common- occurring, found, or done often; prevalent
Can you give an example of a file you want to “move” from one app to another?
Have you ever used goodreader on your iPad, what kind of files are your trying to move?
I like how he did not show that you could put the iOS icons into a folder, making iOS look more cluttered than it has to be. The “they will fix this” statements were great. Of course the real test will be iOS6 that, most likely, will be out before Win8 will.
While a significant exploration, the showdown also underscores Apple’s major advantage of a real, shipping product.
I love the way they have to state that – as if the reader needs to be reminded that current shipping product is better than a promised future product which may be significantly different than demonstrated.
Predictions on when microsloth will be able to inflict this on the unexpecting public?
I say spring 2013 at the earliest.
all this side-by-side video shows is how basically similar these simple desktop functions are. ho-hum.
and yes, by the time MS actually gets this to market in 2013, we’ll be using iOS 6.
A couple of things i like about the W8 tablet are the longer form factor –that stood out immediately to me. Looks to be a better viewing experience. Also when moving an app to another window, you can use you OTHER finger to swipe the windows over–rather than wait for the window to sense your intent & finally react in iOS. That’s a pain.
The longer form factor is only nice in landscape, but almost completely eliminates a portrait use. The height:width ration on the iPad really does accomplish what Steve Jobs said at the intro keynote: there is no top, no wrong way to hold it. I know that the tablet is used for some viewing of widescreen video, but by keeping the hardware to a non-widescreen form factor, it maximized its use in any orientation.
Microsoft…predictably arriving at the party when things are wrapping up. As usual, day late, dollar short.
Video reminds me of all the other BS stuff that was suppose to beat iOS/Apple. Then all the so called journalist/bloggers just hating that Apple is so far ahead of the game, fawning over the competitions POS.
I actually like the “hold the icon and swipe home screens with another finger” option. But then the guy says “it’s a little bit tedious” when showing iOS’ system for arranging apps, and then says that Windows 8 is “pretty much the same.”
At 2:53, he says the special words that almost always describe Apple’s products: “It works.”
I also see Windows uses “charms.” Is that their answer to Apple’s “magic”? 🙂
What happened to their table? Despite the Windows nerdniks salivation, no one gives a damn. Same with this by the time if and when it materializes. There will be other one-night stands for the tech community.
Was this one of those tablets with iCore and a fan?
Why did Safari have tiles?
I like the idea of live tiles, but Metro appears to be hideous.
He didn’t show a mail client.
Does the demonstrator have a nervous tic, or does he just need some training in video gesturing?
Just askin’.
From what I’ve read, the biggest failing of Windows8 is that it can’t run well on any existing hardware. It causes the fan to blow hard continually and freezes up frequently. Therein lies the rub – in order to compete with Apple they try to jam in a ton of features, but that results in bloat, flakiness, and an appetite for hardware that doesn’t exist yet.
Once again the assertion is “It’s gonna be great” … some day … in the future … maybe … when monkeys fly …
Apple makes devices that work *today*.
He either isn’t familiar with iOS or he’s lying…
He says the “chrome” at the top is always persistent, that just isn’t true it scrolls out of the way leaving only the os status bar at the top (not “chrome colored” so no that’s not what he meant”
This is very careful marketing hyperbole, given MS’s track record with “user videos” (time and time again) I would bet this is a product of MS marketing and not really a “user” video at all (they at least have influenced it, if not produced it outright)
Am I the only one that finds the narrator obnoxius?
Not hardly.
How can I see this video on an iPad when it says I need to be in the HTML5 trial and after joining the trial, I am told I cannot see this video without Flash?
After all the Flash hoopla, why use it on any posts? I use my iPad much more often than my Mac.
He sounds like to have smoked something.