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I bought an iPad a little over 5 years ago. At college (longer ago) I used Unix (ultrix) and have had a Linux server ever since and that won't stop any sooner than will my iPad use. Back 8 years ago, I bought a beautiful 17" Sony laptop that was stolen from my car, working in Australia (I'm Scottish) along with mine and my wife's passports (a different story) but once insurance money came, Apple had upped their spec on the MacBook Pro 17" so I got that, and I'm still happily using today. However... I love my "proper computer", my PC (you know what I mean), had one with CGA when jealously looking at my fiends Atari STs and Amigas, but those things plugged into TVs, not monitors like a proper computer, as PC tech advanced, it was clear what the winner was and I'm still trading on the skills picked up when I was in secondary school. I bought the iPad, it was (is actually, still using it, and recently added an air to my arsenal) brilliant, but as this article nicely spells out, it's casual. I've never (as an analyst) managed to successfully use it as a tool, it's a toy and truth is, so is my MacBook. The apple version of excel isn't good enough (or familiar enough) to replace my essential windows version. I've been writing my next big thing software (stop many times on too many platforms) for over a decade and still not made traction, despite learning every library on multiple releases and paying apple's "developer" tax - though I see they've removed that recently. Long story short, I've just ordered a Microsoft tablet thing, with hope that it will be a real productive business device, which for my use my MacBook or iPads (or iPhones or iPods) will never really be.

So I look forward to delivery of my windows tablet (my brother has an RT first fen one, so I've got an idea) and my work phone is a windows phone, it's functional.

I hope to write my next big thing app, and this article has reminded me to not have any shame about marketing it as windows only, because that's what I use and like (though in my heart, I still think of windows as being win.com).

All that and I can play skyrim on it. Meantime I'm sticking with windows too and not many of my colleagues or friends even think this is a controversial thing.