If you want to choose between two iPad and Surface Tablet PC, I believe many people will choose the iPad, the previous market statistics also illustrate this point.However, in the eyes of start-up companies Estately founder Galen Ward, Surface RT is a good choice, and in some ways Apple should also learn to Microsoft, and these advantages add to the next generation iPad or even the entire iOS operating system.
1. Multiple user accounts
Windows Surface lets you setup multiple user accounts. It's actually a feature I never use on a real computer, but it's convenient to have all your settings there when you pick up a tablet. Multiple accounts means no logging on and off of apps like Gmail and Twitter for old foggies like me who live with their significant others. Tap on your account and everything is as you left it.
2. Visual Feedback on Touch
It's a subtle-but-great touch. Each time you touch the surface, a very light-grey, transparent circular dot briefly appears on the screen and then quickly shrinks into nothing. When you swipe, a faint grey trails your finger and then almost instantly disappears. Most Surface users probably don't even notice this detail, but it is very nice. It helps you understand where your touches are registering and makes every touch feel highly responsive — more responsive than iPad.
3. Two apps at a time
The Surface lets you have one app take up three-quarters of the screen
Have you ever tried to paste your favorite three bits of an article into an email with an iPad? Use cases like that make me bring a laptop on trips.
My most common use case is opening a narrow email client and copying and pasting text from a website or copying and pasting multiple URLs. Or: adding stuff to my calendar when I'm in an email app (this is a huge pain on the iPad). Or: taking notes in Evernote with a web browser open.
4. Flash
Flash is dead. Long lived flash!
I hate flash as much as the next guy, but if you use the web for work, it's a necessary evil. Say you're the CEO of a real estate startup and you want to check in on your traffic yesterday in Google Analytics. Then Flash is like a long lost friend.
5. Left and Right Arrow Keys
If you're a write fast, go-back-and-edit writer like me, editing text with the little iOS magnifying glass is something that unknowingly taxes you every time you do it.
On the Surface, I do what I do to write quickly and efficiently on my laptop: get close enough with the mouse and then use the onscreen arrow keys to get positioned just right. Or: Control + Arrow word by word to the place I want to edit.
6. Music Playback
Someone deserves a promotion for the work they did on Windows 8′s playback user interface.
You can play music or podcasts in the background on the Surface — like you'd expect. Here's what the Surface does delightfully right: When you touch either of the volume buttons on the Surface, it shows you the volume level in the upper left hand corner of the screen along with rewind, pause and fast forward buttons.
This is discernability done right. The first time you want music or a podcast playing in a background app to pause on the Surface, you turn down the volume and from there find out you can pause it.
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