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Or... maybe the reason behind the acquisition has more to do with Beats' subscription streaming service than hardware.

Is there really no way to see the pricing structure before I upload things? That's frustrating.

I've been sketching up ideas for this for years. Want to chat?

Any chance of getting MLS in there?

I was way excited for this, but was a little disappointed as I went through the signup process.

I'm not terribly fashion-savvy, and I don't know how to pair things. If there were an 'outfit' option where you could receive a pair of pants / shorts and a fitting top for about $150 / month, I would sign up, and many of my friends would too.

That's a misunderstanding of what's going on here. It's quite easy to create or manipulate HTML5 elements in Win8 - it's merely that some of the methods used by Angular and Backbone don't play nice with WinJS unless you tell them to.

All of those are good points. None of them are in the article.

It's easy to forget what the iPad looked like when it first came out.

It was roundly mocked for merely being a larger iPod touch, and the same criticism that is the thesis of this post was levied against it. Industry experts claimed it had no place, and posited that Apple was inventing a need simply to push a product into.

Over time, people found and invented new uses for their iPads, and they came to realize that they can serve legitimate needs and desires.

This article is as myopic as those experts once were. Perhaps the Surface will be complete failure. Perhaps it will catch on, and people will invent new uses that make them compelling. Reading tea leaves and slamming Microsoft are fun to do, but this is hardly convincing.

Lady Gaga's entire career has been an A/B test. She started out as a singer and songwriter who actually poured some meaning into her music, and had no success. Then she seized the common pop chords, added a heavy back beat, stripped her songs of any meaning, and started wearing meat dresses. I'd say that B worked for her.

For $275? No way.

This is extortion.

There might be a way to fight them through this, if you claim that the poster didn't have the right to grant them the license:

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