Microsoft Surface

jwmcpeak said

Ivor said
Surface = iPad ripoff. Nuff’ said. — Even the Smart Cover concept (?) I’m shocked.

Smart Cover is a useless $40 add-on for a glorified media consumption device that ripped off the tablet concept Microsoft pioneered in the mid-2000s.

Apple pioneered the tablet concept, Jeremy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad (1993) Read more…

@All Once again the Apple vs Microsoft debate. Let’s keep it clean.

digitalscience said
All I read was “supports Adobe Flash” hopefully this will be an iPad killer

Get over with flash, there is no come back because already all flash developers (except game devs) have switched to different techs

LucidStudios said

digitalscience said
All I read was “supports Adobe Flash” hopefully this will be an iPad killer

Get over with flash, there is no come back because already all flash developers (except game devs) have switched to different techs

Exactly.

One more thing about the M$ trying to catch up with other companies… remember Zune?

It doesn’t look like an exact iPad replica (although there’s only so much you can do with a tablet at the end of the day).

Actually, there is so much you can actually do. Before the iPad, we had no iPad copies. Remember all those devices where you used a stylus to add data?

digitalscience said
All I read was “supports Adobe Flash” hopefully this will be an iPad killer

Don’t you know even Adobe dropped it already and Win 8 Metro won’t allow it

LucidStudios said

digitalscience said
All I read was “supports Adobe Flash” hopefully this will be an iPad killer

Get over with flash, there is no come back because already all flash developers (except game devs) have switched to different techs

No Flash will come back..

mpc said

LucidStudios said

Ivor said
Surface = iPad ripoff. Nuff’ said. — Even the Smart Cover concept (?) I’m shocked.

If it were Apple then everybody would say wow they have made very innovative product.

I think Surface has a lot of unique and innovative features like built-in stand, keyboard on the cover.

Yeah because if it was Apple they would made it first When it comes to case + keyboard it was already done for the iPad http://www.logitech.com/en-us/tablet-accessories/keyboards/ultrathin-keyboard-cover?WT.ac=ps|9859|hp

I am not a fan of either Apple or MS, I am in favor of good competition because it just benefits the consumers. A good product with built-in stand and a cover + keyboard with a price tag same as that of an ipad will force other competitors to come up with similar ideas and also drop the prices

Ivor said

jwmcpeak said

Ivor said
Surface = iPad ripoff. Nuff’ said. — Even the Smart Cover concept (?) I’m shocked.

Smart Cover is a useless $40 add-on for a glorified media consumption device that ripped off the tablet concept Microsoft pioneered in the mid-2000s.

Apple pioneered the tablet concept, Jeremy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad (1993) Read more…

@All Once again the Apple vs Microsoft debate. Let’s keep it clean.

Or maybe, just maybe, it was Stanley Kubrick in 1968 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3949GAIokg

Another interesting point: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/first-came-the-idea-for-a-tablet-jobs-says/

Ivor said
Apple pioneered the tablet concept, Jeremy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad (1993) Read more… @All Once again the Apple vs Microsoft debate. Let’s keep it clean.

See my previous comment =) .... and that’s a PDA

Hmm, still trying to open http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ , but microsoft is down. May be Apple attack