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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.'"
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.
And then for some innovation is synonym for coming up with something completely knew or unheard of. If you take that as criteria, there aren't a lot companies that 'innovate' anymore.
Sometimes I have the feeling that hating the brand is as popular as owning something from that brand. It also remind me of a saying we have in Flanders "What the heart is full of, the mouth flows over..." .
I hope Microsoft grows a pair and properly sues Apple for what is clearly a deliberate copy, name included, of their new device.
Apple is always quick to litigate over even the most obscure toe-stepping by companies on its products, so it only seems natural that when they blatantly rip off another device they should pay the same price, even if they don't lose the suit.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits