Apple's Next Hit Could Be a Microsoft Surface Pro Clone

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 18, 2014 @05:32AM from the they-have-the-technology dept.

theodp writes "Good artists copy, great artists steal," Steve Jobs used to say. Having launched a perfectly-timed attack against Samsung and phablets with its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Leonid Bershidsky suggests that the next big thing from Apple will be a tablet-laptop a la Microsoft's Surface Pro 3. "Before yesterday's Apple [iPad] event," writes Bershidsky, "rumors were strong of an upcoming giant iPad, to be called iPad Pro or iPad Plus. There were even leaked pictures of a device with a 12.9-inch screen, bigger than the Surface Pro's 12-inch one. It didn't come this time, but it will. I've been expecting a touch-screen Apple laptop for a few years now, and keep being wrong.

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Re: Perfectly-timed? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-18 05:58 · Score: 2, Funny

All Apple had to do was wait for Steve to die, then release a device with a screen bigger than Jobs would approve . VoilÃ! Then some jerk can self promote his garbage on Slashdot and proclaim its brilliance.
ipoo by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-18 06:01 · Score: 2, Funny

Apple can shit in a box and people will buy it.
Re:It's the OS, Stupid by jeffb+(2.718) · 2014-10-18 11:34 · Score: 3, Funny

2005 called...
Oh my God! Did you warn them? About Beta?