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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re: Perfectly-timed? by Gr8Apes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Samsung and others have been making lots of money off bigger phones.

    You might want to review that statement, Apple appears to be cleaning house on the money side, taking 87% of the profit in the market.

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  2. Re: It's the OS, Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I highly recommend you stop making comments on a subject you know nothing about.

    Apple has been getting UNIX 03 certification since 10.5 (Leopard). The recent 10.10 (Yosemite) release received certification on September 24, 2014.

    http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm