More than 60 percent of the respondents to a poll by technology website PC Advisor believe the iPad's days as the dominant tablet are numbered, with the majority of these predicting that the Microsoft Surface can beat Apple's all-conquering device.
Asked 'Can Microsoft's Surface tablet beat Apple's iPad?', 23 percent of the 1,868 voters answered 'Yes, eventually all Apple innovations are overtaken', and 27 percent ticked 'Yes, Surface looks fantastic', for a neat total of 50 percent in the Microsoft camp.
A further 11 percent believed Android would be the iPad killer.
A loyal 29 percent weren't having any of all this, however, voting for the answer 'No, Apple iPad is too dominant', and 9 percent of respondents didn't know.
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Mackly said on Wed, 27 Jun 2012
Is this news? Really? Respondents to a poll on a site called: "PC Advisor", seriously?
Run the same poll on MacWorld and see what response you get. Neither set of results will be remotest bit useful.
w1lbur said on Wed, 27 Jun 2012
It may not be the most breaking comment but it's interesting never the less. Coming from Mac's background I can understand why, the windows approach and OS seems to be very good, as a business person talking with predominately Windows users if I have a tablet with native Office applications I would get it - MS project and I am in.
Anaxagoras said on Wed, 27 Jun 2012
Two excellent comments above.
Most people in the business world are Windows' fanbois. So obsessed are they by Microsoft that the Surface will be the one and only choice as far as they are concerned.
But it isn't really a tablet, is it? Just look at it. It's really a very small laptop.
SwissMac said on Fri, 29 Jun 2012
PC Advisor caters to teenagers and others who think they know a lot about computers but who in actual fact need a magazine to tell them how to install software, save files and burn a CD.
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