I should have made my point better. I was not saying they gave anecdotes, I was saying I could give my anecdotes to support a point, and other people could pile on and provide theirs, but in the end prove nothing.
And arguments based on “common sense” are just are valuable as anecdotal data (ie not much). You can make a logical argument for anything, up is down, black is white, freedom is slavery; because a logical argument is only as good as its postulates.
The Surface and the Surface Pro have been out for a while now. Lots of people said the market would be confused prior to the launch. What I haven’t seen is anyone come back with data to say they were right (or wrong). Now the Verge is making the exact same argument, but applying it to “small” (for a given value of small) tablets, without backing it up with data.
Were they right about RT vs Pro? In which case this article was kind of redundant and didn’t need to be written. Were they wrong? In which case this article is equally useless.
Or did they write an article that would cause those with predefined narratives to link to it and say “See, I was right!” or “Look at those idiots, heh”
Because without doing anything to make their case, I am betting on the latter…