Apple Gotta Step It Up!

As a young professional, I'm always looking for ways to enhance my productivity, to use up all resources I got on hand to perform well at what I do. Ironically, speaking of resources, I do not quite have enough to afford a tablet (sad,I know).

I'm going to be brave here and admit that, even though I have a crappy, seems-like-a-90s-brick phone, an iPhone 4, I haven't really used or get used to a tablet, like an iPad.

Just a few days ago, I paid a visit to one of my best friends. She has an iPad. I always travel with my laptop, because I try to be "productive" while traveling, but this time I didn't. I hate the small screen of my iPhone, so I my friend let me borrowed her iPad. I used it for an hour or two, maybe, and it sucked. I couldn't do two things at a time. For example, I was showing her a new song I had discovered (note: I wanted to show her the song, not its music video). When trying to surf around the web (Twitter), the music stopped! It didn't bother me as much, because I could have easily gone to Spotify or Pandora to search for the song (turns out she didn't have any of those apps, so  we had to rely on Youtube). 

This is just one example. This might sound silly, but it applies to the point that Windows is trying to make in this commercial. We found out that the video of this new song was funny! We wanted to watch it! But - oh no - we didn't know the lyrics! We have to switch apps to get the lyrics! And guess what happened! The video stopped, hence the music stopped too!

This is just a simple very simple example of how Apple needs to step it up! I know that it's a problem that can easily be fixed by downloading the necessary apps to listen to a song, switch apps for t he lyrics and not be frustrated of the music pausing because of the switch. Who cares! We are customers! We want things to be fixed for us (unfortunately). And Windows 8 just did that. Fixed it.

Let's face it. In this day and age we are drawn to do more than one thing at a time, practically. The ability to use at least two [visually needed] apps at the same time, is extremely valuable. Speaking of which, how much  does an iPad cost compared to the Windows 8, or any non-apple tablet, for that matter? - Yeah.

Kudos to Windows 8