I noticed a comment under the message stating that people don't have any problem with picking up a completely different OS for the pad and phone, i.e. Android and IOs, plus the Amazon version of Android.
They're suggesting that people don't see an issue with having a different OS on their tablet and phone then the do on their PC.
I think that's correct, when we got our iPad I didn't say I wish this worked like Windows, I accepted that it was different and just got used to it.
After all I was working with a touch screen, not a mouse and keyboard, I didn't expect it to work the same.
I don't think a pad with a touch screen is the same thing, you can do a lot of stuff on you PC that you just can't do on a tablet.
A tablet has a lot of restrictions.
But I don't carry my PC around and shoot video with it, or take pictures, or haul it to my doctors office to kill time while a wait.
On the other hand I don't retouch my photos or edit my video on my iPad, (just too limiting) I move the files to my PC edit them and then move them back to my iPad or to some kind of cloud storage that makes them available to my tablet.
I've been considering buying a Amazon Kindle HDX 8.9.
I'm not even thinking about buying a Windows tablet even though it does have an OS that I'm familiar with.
What's important to me is the high resolution screen and the 8 megapixel camera, and of course the price.
I don't really care if I have to learn a new operating system, if it does what I want it to do.
I can't even find a Windows tablet that has a 1920 by 1080 screen.
Millions of people are running around with IOS and Android devices, moving to Windows 8 would be just as hard for them as for me to go the other way. They aren't going to buy a Windows device for the OS.
And I don't think that a PC or Mac user is going to pick a certain device just because of the operating system.
But we do know that apparently a lot of people will decide not to buy something because of the operating system, if it happens to be Windows 8.
Mike