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by pjmlp 731 days ago
Here,

https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/dex/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface

Vote with your wallet, if enough people do that, maybe Apple will notice.

Now if you already validated what they are selling is enough to keep the masses happy, then it is as it is.

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The second link (to Surface) is trying to sell a Surface computer (i.e., hardware).

The first link appears to be... presentation software? I think? It talks a lot about Samsung devices but doesn't appear to be selling a specific device (i.e., not hardware. I don't see how the software would affect sales of the iPad (which is hardware).

(Was there a different link you meant to share instead? :) )

> The first link appears to be... presentation software? I think?

Can you try to do at least the bare minimum of trying to understand the text instead of badly extrapolating from the pretty pictures?

The number of people who are willing and able to “vote with their wallet” for alternative OSes on iPad is insufficient for results.

The vast, vast majority of iPad users want iPadOS and nothing else.

Hope is not a strategy.

Yet another proof that those that want something else, should sponsor someone else for their efforts.

Not give money to Apple, and then complain.

But which software stack? Android? Windows? Both are barely usable and for the most common tasks iPadOS is sadly miles ahead.
Android is just fine. Unless you're an artist who actually wants the super fancy pen interactions and display, there's really not that much difference. You may be more used to one over the other, but I guarantee it works the other way too.
I know many non-artists who want high refresh rate displays and low latency stylus input. It’s not “super fancy”. Let’s not move the goalposts; the iPad hardware is years beyond any other tablet.

Android is not “just fine”. The hardware available is relatively low quality compared to the iPad.

New iPad is super fancy. It's above everything else in many ways. But that doesn't move everything else down. Android tablets (unless you get one from a discount bin) are perfectly functional devices and they really are just fine. You can do almost all the same tasks on them. You don't have to chase the new, shiny and expensive. In the same way, Camry and Civic are just fine cars - they are simple and get the job done.
Waiting patiently for the first Nuvia/Oryon/SDXE tablet or 2-in-1, with detachable non-bluetooth keyboard

The Snapdragon Elite devices launched so far have been laptops.