Win8 Tablets

Skeeter said:
The constant "its got no apps" complaint that keeps popping up in every review is really starting to grate on me.

Of course its got few apps, its new. The Apple Store had only a few apps when it launched, as did the Android Market. They grow.

Using the number of apps as an argument just strikes me as people desperately trying to seek something to complain about.
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I think its a valid point but the sites making the overall ecosystem rating drop cause of it is a bit stupid. I think right now in the game Android and iOS both have really good app stores, but wp8/RT is still growing. However on a tablet I would need apps less since you have a nice sized web browser, I can do things like email just fine, read all my new without an app, watch media (Although flash was surprising slow on the Surface RT), even play games (a lot of fun old school games have been ported over to html).

It is fair to make the point the RT is lacking in apps, but they should also show all the other things it can do, IE10 is a big steep forward, and till recently everyone wanted web apps, its just apple that made everyone believe they need an app for everything, most of which are no more functional then a bookmark on a web browser.
 
Yeah. Its perfectly fine to say that at the moment a limitation of Windows RT is the low number of apps, but it seems to be being used as a blanket reason not to buy RT at all by a lot of reviewers. As if the number of apps is always going to be low.

A review that summaries to "I don't like the colour, its a different size and shape to the iPad, and theres no apps, its rubbish" is a review not worth the bandwidth it used to be shown on my screen. It would be like reviewing a car based on the number of paint colour choices. There are far more important things that should be reviewed, but they are being ignored in favour of jumping on the easy to board "its got no apps" bandwagon.

Its why I'm waiting for all the users on here to start getting them and posting some actual real world reviews before making my mind up.
 
The app count is offset due to the massive number of .NET developers, there is little to learn to get going.

If you compare number of developers with existing code they could easily port, MS must be massively ahead of Apple when they launched.
 
jonneymendoza said:
any link to the MS store so i can check out what apps are out atm?

edit: found it.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/store/top-free-apps

i see like 8/10 apps i use already in the app store. cant see what people are moaning about lack of apps
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That's windows phone apps, not windows apps.

No online accesable store yet for apps, though im asusming there will be as if you know the id number for an app you can acess the store online(but just for that app, no way to browse it or anything). What apps do you use?
 
Glaucus said:
That's windows phone apps, not windows apps.

No online accesable store yet for apps, though im asusming there will be as if you know the id number for an app you can acess the store online(but just for that app, no way to browse it or anything). What apps do you use?
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i use facebook, twitter, flickr, 500px, evernote, chrome,spotify, gtalk, music player,trip advisor, linkedIn, pulse rss reader(an rss reader with a decent ui will do), calendar app syncing to my gmail accunt, tapatalk, avforum app talk photography app(although with web browsing, not point for these forum apps anymore), whatsApp.

for desktop apps i use eclipse,lightroom 4, putty, windscp, skype etc etc(all of my existing desktop apps will work in win8 pro right?)
 
Glaucus said:
W700 now on 4 sites, smidge under £600 with dock and keyboard and one site even says 4g.

Wouldn't trust them that much but if those prices stay or continue to fall it is a bit of a bargain.
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need to look on W700 review again...but at £600 it seems really good price if you get dock and keyboard at same time
 
jonneymendoza said:
i use facebook, twitter, flickr, 500px, evernote, chrome,spotify, gtalk, music player,trip advisor, linkedIn, pulse rss reader(an rss reader with a decent ui will do), calendar app syncing to my gmail accunt, tapatalk, avforum app talk photography app(although with web browsing, not point for these forum apps anymore), whatsApp.

for desktop apps i use eclipse,lightroom 4, putty, windscp, skype etc etc(all of my existing desktop apps will work in win8 pro right?)
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all desktop apps should work

facebook, twitter(metroTwit and several other apps), flickr(several flickr apps, not sure if any are official), 500px, evernote, chrome(no chrome yet, but its coming),spotify(no spotify yet, there are anumber of others like xbox music), gtalk, music player,trip advisor, linkedIn, pulse rss reader(an rss reader with a decent ui will do), calendar app syncing to my gmail accunt, tapatalk, avforum app talk photography app(although with web browsing, not point for these forum apps anymore), whatsApp.



only got upto spotify, ones in bold are available. I have to go out now though.
 
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Just spotted the Acer models (both the W500 and the W700) on a competitors site. They're all on pre-order due 23rd November :( so a bit of a wait still.

The W510 has 2 models;

Intel Atom 1.8Ghz dual core, 2Gb ram with 32Gb storage, and full windows 8 for £499

and

same as above but with 64gb storage for £550 - both with the keyboard dock

The W700 has 2 models too;

Intel core i3 dual core, 4Gb ram 64b Storage, with the dock and bluetooth keyboard, full windows 8 for £599

The other model is a Intel core i5 dual core, 4gb ram and 128Gb storage, with dock and bluetooth keyboard for £750
 
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POB said:
The app count is offset due to the massive number of .NET developers, there is little to learn to get going.

If you compare number of developers with existing code they could easily port, MS must be massively ahead of Apple when they launched.
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Developing for .Net is also really easy, the interface is very clean and simple and if you have a basic understand of program and C/C#/C++ it wont take long at all.
 
POB said:
The app count is offset due to the massive number of .NET developers, there is little to learn to get going.

If you compare number of developers with existing code they could easily port, MS must be massively ahead of Apple when they launched.
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This obsession with the number of apps needs to stop, I don't care if there's a million billion apps out but I do care if the major ones aren't and I don't think I'm alone in this.
 
DeathStorm said:
This obsession with the number of apps needs to stop, I don't care if there's a million billion apps out but I do care if the major ones aren't and I don't think I'm alone in this.
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Indeed, quality over quantity.

I don't want to look through a 1000 apps that all tell me the weather forecast etc!
 
Glaucus said:
chrome(no chrome yet, but its coming)
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Chrome is already available for Windows 8 but not in the Windows Store, you have to download it from the Google website, however...

Rilot said:
Once RT has Chrome and a good Google Reader client, I'm there.
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...due to artificial limitations imposed by Microsoft on third party apps it won't ever be available on Windows RT, unless Google convinces Microsoft to make an exception for them.
 
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