This Black Friday iPad deal kills any reason to buy a Windows tablet

No matter how you may feel about Windows 10, there's no denying that the iPad is still the king of tablets. That's even more true when you consider the epic $249 iPad sale that's running during Black Friday, which kills any reason whatsoever of even considering a Windows tablet during the holiday shopping season.



Fire sale

iPad 10.2-inch



$249 at Amazon

Putting Windows to shame

If you're in the market for a tablet during Black Friday, this $249 iPad is the absolute king of deals.



Windows 10's struggles with its tablet mode are well documented. In lamenting the Surface Go's tablet-forward nature, Windows Central senior editor Zac Bowden said:


Its biggest problem is that it's very obviously a desktop experience that has been poorly optimized for tablets. It still has a taskbar that's only there so that you can go back to Start, any animation it does have are just fade effects with no real flair to them, and many of the apps, such as Edge, aren't really optimized for tablet...