Microsoft copies Apple yet again

12 years ago

“Microsoft, like Apple nemesis Samsung, has a long history of copying market leaders. Windows wasn’t born from originality, folks. It was mostly stolen from Apple’s Mac OS. Likewise, Samsung didn’t innovate the modern era smartphone or tablet with their Galaxy line of knockoffs. Those were copied from Apple’s iPhone and iPad,” Kate MacKenzie writes for PixoBebo. “That said, Microsoft deserves a little credit for at least attempting to be original, whenever and wherever that occurs.”

“The new Surface Pro 3 remains a hybrid notebook-cum-tablet. It’s larger and lighter than a MacBook Air. But it runs Windows 8.1 enhanced for tablets, and does not come with a keyboard (optional), or much storage. The price starts at $100 less than a new 11-inch MacBook Air, but by the time you add a keyboard, a comparable Intel i5 CPU and storage, it’s more expensive than Apple’s low end MacBook Air, and now larger and heavier,” MacKenzie writes. “With the keyboard removed, Surface Pro becomes a big-assed tablet that is bigger and heavier than Apple’s iPad Air.”

“Microsoft copied Apple’s strategy of avoiding the low end of the market with a product that costs nearly double a typical Windows notebook, but also serves as the industry’s largest tablet. I fear Microsoft has gone all schizoid on us by thinking differently and copying Apple at the same time,” MacKenzie writes. “I suspect the new notebook-cum-tablet device is there to protect Microsoft’s roots in the enterprise. Interestingly, when it comes to mobile devices– smartphones and tablets– Apple is the industry leader in the enterprise; not Microsoft. The Surface Pro 3 won’t change that.”

Read more in the full article – recommended – here.