Tech reviewers have written much about the Surface, and we are again wondering if it will be more viable and popular than the iPad. I see this is a fundamental miss based on simple use cases. The iPad is and always will not be a laptop; it’s an appliance. This is a whole different animal and people seem to overlook that the iPad has created it’s own place in computing. It’s about the interface and what is most natural. Look at anyone using an iPad and you’ll see that their fingers moving on the screen. These are for the most part not keystrokes, rather they are navigating to get information versus inputting it.

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