The Surface Pro will have half the battery life of the Surface RT, so about four hours.

Which isn’t that bad for a laptop. But add a Type Cover for $130 and the entry-level Surface Pro costs $30 more than a 64GB MacBook Air.

Coming in January. And for “64GB” read “48GB”. Or even less as I would expect Windows 8 Pro to take up more space than Windows RT. Also, I can’t believe the battery life is going to be great with an Intel i5 inside. Oh, and neither the Touch Cover nor the Type Cover is bundled with it, so tack on an extra $100+.

But other than that it sounds awesome.

I had said on MacBreak Weekly that I expected the Surface Pro to do better than the Surface RT but now I’m not so sure. The more I think about it, the less I think PC manufacturers have to worry about the Surface, at least right now.

I was on this week’s MacBreak Weekly where we discussed inappropriate uses for Google Glasses amongst other headier topics.

Zack Whittaker at ZDNet on an IDC report predicting the iPhone’s ascendance in the enterprise:

This is the tipping point. BlackBerry is on its way out as the business and enterprise gold standard in security and functionality, and the iPhone is heading in.

And this from a guy who declared the iPad “flawed from the start” and an “epic fail”.

Before it came out.

I made this point to a relative over the summer, though: if enterprises want something secure, modern and that represents a viable platform, the only choice is the iPhone. Enterprise IT shops come up with all kinds of crazy rationales for their purchases and they could always decide a choice of vendors is more important than security, but if they stick to what should be the more important criteria, iOS should benefit greatly. The only real question is if Apple’s prepared to make the most of that relationship.

For a good laugh, visit the comments where several people think BlackBerry is going to turn this around. Unless you don’t find people who are delusional to be funny.

Horace Dediu puts some analysis behind those numbers he published over the weekend:

iPhone users are about three times more engaged in shopping with their devices than Android users. Two years ago the ratio was two to one.

Why Android users don’t use the “smart” part of their phones seems to be the question of the day, even on some political sites. Without any data, the most logical answer to me is that Android phones are pushed as free replacements for flip phones to people who are simply phone users. It’s hard for technology people to understand, but there are a lot of people who actually just want to make phone calls on their cell phones. As sick and depraved as that sounds.

Believe it or not, I know a guy in his 40s who still doesn’t have a cell phone of any kind (anecdotes!). And, no, he’s not Amish.

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Horace Dediu proves the graph.

iOS took 77 percent of mobile online sales while Android won with 21 percent, just one percent of which was from the Kindle.

Oh, and iOS sales grew more than Android from last year, despite Android growing market share by infinity.

The Register reports that Barclays has bought 8,500 iPads (via TUAW):

The buy, made with dealer Insight UK, is believed to be one of the largest roll outs of the iPad or indeed any tablet in the UK finance sector, and signals the growing acceptance of the tab tech in corporate land.

Companies are surely eschewing the Surface RT and waiting for the Surface Pro, but those are going to be pricier than iPads and, well, still kinda sucky. I’m sure some, if not many, companies will deploy Surfaces, but I’m not terribly worried about the iPad’s place in the corporate world.

Kontra:

One way to make sense of this situation is to declare the very notion of (software) patents archaic and indefensible in the 21st century. But what if the problem isn’t the fundamental notion or the general utility of patents, rather the inefficiencies in our legal system?

I don’t know much about patents, but I’m pretty sure it is both.

Remember, you have until December 1st to opt out of PayPal’s douchey “Agreement to Arbitrate”.  Shawn King tells you how. Matt Drance suggests sending a separate notice for each account, which probably isn’t a bad idea.