Why is Windows on Arm inferior to the iPad?

Posted by bxcrouch on March 16, 2012 07:20 pm 82

Everywhere I look on the internet it seems everyone is saying that
WOA is in trouble and that the only thing that is going to really let a intel
tablet compete is backwards desktop compatibility. What makes the iPad so much
better than a Windows 8 WOA tablet? Its understood that the iPad has more apps
and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, but that could and most
likely will change sooner rather than later. Aside from iPad's head start in
the app category I just don't understand why it is so much better than a windows
tablet. Win8 has the ability to run multiple apps on screen at the same time
seamlessly and has live tiles instead of static icons. The iPad's gestures such
as the 4 finger dragging are awkward compared to the app switching with your
thumbs in Win8. I personally feel that the metro look and the focus on content
is refreshing, though I know that is a matter of opinion. Using Skydrive which
is much more flexible that ICloud you can finally sync settings and data easily
between all your windows devices and it has the integrated social networking
that has been one of the top features of windows phone. Not to mention Xbox and
Kinect support as well. Finally the desktop will still be there to run office
apps in a productive environment just as we have become accustom to on our
current PC's in a no comprise solution. There are even all the little extras
such as being able to designate different internet connections as metered and
have the behavior of the OS and apps change accordingly, as well as the
improved task manager and USB support. These are just the things WOA has going
for it. When you factor in almost full backwards compatibility with the Intel
tablets, I don't see how it cannot be a compelling solution. I know it will
come down to hardware to make the final choice, but as far as the OS itself, I
don't really see any advantages to IOS over Win8 for tablets. What do you
guys think?