Microsoft Surface, Meet Apple iSurface 201
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.'"
Re:It's a screen with a keyboard... (Score:5, Funny)
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?
toaster?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's a screen with a keyboard... (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing gnu here. Move along.
FTFY
Re:It's a screen with a keyboard... (Score:5, Funny)
Payback - you Apple bullies! (Score:5, Funny)
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*
Re:It's a screen with a keyboard... (Score:5, Funny)
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? [youtube.com]
Re:Copy Sony again? (Score:4, Funny)
You might want to look up what "prior art" means.
Re:It's a screen with a keyboard... (Score:1, Funny)
That may be shocking to you, but the kind of prejudice involved is exactly the same
Yeah, in the iChauvinists it is.