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: It's the OS, Stupid by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-18 11:44 · 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