Every day in December (newborn baby schedule permitting) I plan on posting one thing from my official DevilDinosaur Christmas Wish List (patent pending). Why? Because I can.
The Christmas before last about half my family pooled their money and surprised me with a Kindle Fire. It was a very nice gift, and way more than I thought I was getting that Christmas. Even though it's not without it's faults (terrible web browsing), I've used it a ton so I feel like it was definitely worth it. The problem now is that it's now 2 years old and 2 years might as well be 1,000 in tech years.
I think it's about time I get a new tablet. One with a bit more functionality than the Fire. The Fire is still great for watching netflix and reading books but it's starting to get a little long in the tooth for anything else. I've run into my share of games and applications that either hang or just don't want to run on it. Even though they're cool and all I don't really feel like getting sucked into Apple's iUniverse so I don't really think I'd like an iPad. However the Surface has a couple features that are really interesting to me. The issue there though is that I still like reading books on the Kindle. I can't see myself reading a book on the surface, plus I'm already tied into the Amazon-verse with all my previous purchases.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I want Santa to bring me a new Kindle Fire DX. Or maybe a Microsoft Surface... I don't know I just want something that will play Angry Bird Star Wars II and supports telepods.
3 comments:
Surface = Zune 2.0
OK,maybe not that bad but you'll be able to get them in the Best Buy discount bin in about 18 months.
Remember how we talked back when about the potential for the Surface to kill it in the business world due to full Office capabilities? Well, my speculation was wrong. Our sales staff is using iPads now and nobody (whole western division) is using Office in the field. Presentations are all dynamic cloud based stuff, no Powerpoint and anybody that would use Excel uses much more powerful laptops or desktops, no need in the field. Word is replaced with basic word processing programs, or better yet our big big boss showed me the hand-written notes he wrote on the iPad then presented off.
It might prove that Microsoft was just too late to the tablet market, much like they were the smart phone market. Buying Nokia was a good start but they probably should have done it 4 years ago.
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