Yesterday and the day before yesterday, Microsoft released two ads comparing the ASUS VivoTab to the iPad, showing that the ASUS tablet can do more things than an iPad.
Along with the ads, Microsoft also uploaded a new website called “iPad vs. Windows” where it compares the two devices and towards the end, it says that the ASUS VivoTab has a larger touchscreen than the iPad.
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Elliot Temple did some math and found that Microsoft is “scrambling” the numbers to say that the 10.1-inch ASUS tablet has a larger screen than the 9.7-inch iPad. “It’s not to scale,” Elliot said.
According to Temple, Microsoft is trying to make the ASUS have a bigger screen, but it's actually smaller. The iPad's screen is 7.76 by 5.82 inches, while the ASUS's is 8.8 by 4.95 inches. The ASUS tablet's screen is larger in one direction but smaller in the other, making it 3.55% smaller overall than the iPad's screen, not 36% larger as Microsoft claims.
Why is a larger screen smaller? Because it has a different shape. A long, narrow screen gives a larger diagonal but is smaller in size.
The Surface sold almost nothing and Microsoft began to attack the iPad in cheap and inaccurate ways.
Furthermore, Microsoft says the iPad costs $699, which is true but only for the 64GB version. They don't dare write that it has the exact same price as the ASUS tablet.
