hey zhenya I use MS miracast dongle all the time while streaming my GF's show WHILE I surf the net or use an app with no hiccups at all, so I don't know what your talking about... BTW my battery lasts over 6-7 hours doing this after my GF has watched her 3 hour show and then I continue with my stuff, as for the apps you have in question, well that's YOUR personal preference! also a lot of people here have this "APP" MENTALITY when there is a native X86/X64 program available or IE native and keep looking to use a "app" inferior alternative... sorry but all of you complaining that the SP3 is an inferior tablet is nonsense because there is a "couple" of APPS missing. your missing the big picture here is that it handles PC/gaming/tablet/media device and IOS is just an IOS that only is a media device as it can't surf the web that great because of how limited the web app is and so many fart apps and silly apps that you can't really take it seriously! sorry but the IOS is inferior to SP3..
If you read my post objectively you'll see I never complained about the performance of Miracast. It's the overall implementation that's clunky. Try to use it to play a video on your tv while you use the Surface as a tablet - no mouse or keyboard attached. The video content plays fine, but you want to jump to a different point in the movie, change what you are watching, pause, whatever. How do you do that? All of your controls are now on a remote, non-touch screen. (unless of course you use, guess what, an app). Even with a mouse connected, it's still clunky as you have to hit targets that may be a distance away and very small. Contrast with how this is done on iOS where the video content is generally handed off entirely to the playing device (meaning there is virtually no battery hit at all to the host). Controls for play/pause/skip/scrub plus all the navigation of the menu items remains on the screen in your hand. (Heck, you can even use the included remote control to play/pause/ff/rew/skip/etc.)
Again, I clearly stated in my post that those were things that
I have run up against when trying to use the Surface as an iPad replacement. A certain segment of owners here refuse to admit those are valid use cases. I can assure you, after using an iPad for 5 years, running up against some of them makes Windows feel anything but cutting edge. It's to your own detriment that you choose to lash out as opposed to recognizing this fact. Apps are not toys. They are the new paradigm upon which most computing is being done because computers are no longer just tools which people use to do work. If you read my post more closely, with some objectivity, you'll see there are a number of examples of things that x86 programs and web apps
just can't do as compared to dedicated apps - whether in iOS or Windows.
You can choose to see iOS as 'inferior' to sp3. The reality is they are built to accomplish fundamentally different goals and it is much more pleasant to view them both as successes for that.