{"id":749866,"date":"2013-05-06T11:25:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=489422"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:25:21","slug":"bill-gates-apples-frustrating-ipad-should-be-more-like-microsofts-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/749866","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: Apple\u2019s \u2018frustrating\u2019 iPad should be more like Microsoft\u2019s Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/06\/bill-gates-ipad-criticism\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/gates.png?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bill Gates iPad Criticism\" title=\"Bill Gates iPad Criticism\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/29\/ipad-customer-satisfaction-survey-2013-472575\/\">iPad may have the highest customer satisfaction ratings<\/a> of any tablet in the world, but <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> cofounder Bill Gates thinks that many of its users are \"frustrated\" because it doesn't come with a physical keyboard and it lacks access to Microsoft Office. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bill-gates-on-the-ipad-2013-5\"><em>Business Insider<\/em> reports<\/a> that Gates, while being interviewed on <em>CNBC<\/em> on Monday, said that a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/ipad\">iPad<\/a> users \"are frustrated, they can't type, they can't create documents, they don't have Office there.\" As an alternative, Gates plugged <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/14\/microsoft-surface-review-surface-pro-327443\/\">Microsoft's own Surface tablet<\/a> that features the \"portability of the tablet but the richness of the PC\" and that not coincidentally has a physical keyboard accessory and access to Office. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/15\/microsoft-surface-sales-2013-379490\/\">given how weak the Surface's early sales have been compared to the iPad<\/a>, it's tough to argue that any frustration with Apple's tablet is prompting consumers to flee to Windows-based tablets.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/XdXuCUpfI5k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPad may have the highest customer satisfaction ratings of any tablet in the world, but Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates thinks that many of its users are &#8220;frustrated&#8221; because it doesn&#8217;t come with a physical keyboard and it lacks access to Microsoft Office. Business Insider reports that Gates, while being interviewed on CNBC on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-394C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}