To put it into perspective, my dad has an Android phone that still runs on 5.1 and he blew ~€600,- on it back then. Not a single update thus far but the phone still works while android is sitting at 7.1.1 atm. That was one year ago... W10M still gets updates. Do you honestly expect they're going to just drop W10M while their oem partner released a business orientated 3-in-1 device for a premium price? Thats suicide.
So, to call the x3 antiquated seems a little harsh... I get where your frustration comes from because I too would like to run full windows 10 on my x3.
But as a consumer that hasn't even used Continuum, do we really need it? What are the benefits for us? I can see it being great for business users, but the average consumer doesn't even know what Continuum is or rather packs another laptop with them.
I agree with you in a sense that I really hope it doesn't become antiquated too early on its life-cycle.
About Continuum, I use it as a mix of personal/work use. People I've shown it to think it's really neat and some of the more technically advanced people I work with wish they had a similar solution.
I really don't NEED to use it for work or personal use, but I find it's size is much better than what I already have. I personal laptop is almost 3 years old, got it from college. Lenovo ThinkPad. It's a great little beast and pretty light. My work laptop is a monster Dell 7510 CAD machine and is really heavy.
Whenever I travel, I can take the x3/ lapdock and not worry about missing out on anything. Spend a weekend at home, I bring the x3. Go to a conference or training for a few days, can bring the x3 and not be weighed down by my other 2 laptops. Plus having the slim lapdock for meetings is great, makes taking notes a lot easier and can email them out easy.
So my lapdock doesn't exactly
replace my other 2 laptops, but it certainly helps when traveling which is the main reason I got it since most of what I do is browser based and Edge has been doing great so far.
So to answer your question, no, I don't think consumers NEED it. Much like we don't need a lot of other crap we get with "smart" products. But there are benefits to using it, especially with the lapdock IMO. I've actually yet to try the desk dock but I assume it's great for those people on the move and don't require a lot of software or need to access their company's network drives.