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Microsoft Surface, Meet Apple iSurface
theodp writes "Responding to Microsoft's Windows 8 efforts, Apple CEO Tim Cook insisted in late April that combining a tablet and a notebook would be like converging a toaster and a refrigerator. But a patent application submitted by Apple last year — and made public Tuesday morning — proposes marrying a tablet and a keyboard to create 'a true laptop alternative,' which GeekWire notes looks a lot like Microsoft Surface (comparison pic). In its patent filing, Apple describes various ways that a tablet's cover could be used as an I-O device — as a tactile-feedback keyboard ('word processing and email become much more efficient'), to display additional output, as a touchpad replacement, and even to receive stylus input. 'The experience,' claims Apple, 'is even better in some ways than the laptop experience.'"
Nothing new here. Move along.
But...but...it's an APPLE screen with a keyboard! That mean's it's magical, revolutionary, innovative, wonderful, stunning, and powerful! Why do you hate magic?
"So after all this, you make my case for me. To end this stalemate, you must die..."
Somebody please converge my microwave with my refrigerator/freezer. Put a keyboard on it and a handy "sue everyone" button and its an iAppliance (c).
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Nothing gnu here. Move along.
FTFY
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Dam Asus an their time machine, they must have gone into the future 3 years and used that knowledge to steal the design from Apple for the Asus Transformer.
It's payback for all the abuse over the years that us Microsoft lovers had to put up with from the Apple Fanbois ...
Microsoft has a monopoly! The courts said so!
Microsoft controls the PC market and Apple can't get a break!
Microsoft is keeping us down!
Microsoft has cornered the market on clothes forcing us to wear black fake turtle necks!
Microsoft is hurting Jobs!
Microsoft stole everything from Apple!
Microsoft does this!
Microsoft does that!
Microsoft! Microsoft! Microsoft! Microsoft!
Do you know what kind of emotional scaring I have suffered from with all this Microsoft! Hate!! And you have the nerve - the audacity - to complain about Apple Hate?!?
I still cry myself to sleep on occasion after reading Slashdot on my Windows PC! And when I go to get my Windows 8 machine, I'll wear sunglasses, trench coat, and I'll have to fork Firefox so that it always reports that I'm using some sort of Apple OS! Do you realize that?!
Posting as AC because I can't deal with you Apple bullies!
*storms off sobbing*
The only ones that talk constant about "magical", "revolutionary", "innovative", ... - with the exception of a marketing movie when a new product has introduced - are people that are riding the iHate wave. I don't see a lot of normal people talking in such terms.
Then you either live in a small pocket of technological illiterati, are legally deaf, or deliberately ignoring it, because I hear that kind of shit all the fucking time out of retards that honestly believe Steve Jobs invented the modern era single-handedly.
How long before this becomes reality?
You might want to look up what "prior art" means.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
That may be shocking to you, but the kind of prejudice involved is exactly the same
Yeah, in the iChauvinists it is.
Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.