[Swordmaker]

Still ducking and diving, still long lengthy posts with ZERO proof that Microsoft paid for ANYONE to write even a single one of the recent spate of articles in tech magazines which correctly noted that Apple is ripping off the Surface tablet and the Surface cover.

BS, What are you smoking, Joe?

Microsoft copied Apple and the Apple ecosystem in developing the Microsoft Surface line. All of these predate the Microsoft Surface design and patent applications:

Zagg iPad keyboard cover with kickstand 2010

iPad Brydge keyboard Cover 2010

iPad Zagg Ultra-Slimbook keyboard Cover 2011

Cregle iPen digitizer 2011

Adonit Jot Pen Pro stylus for iPad 2011

[SmokingJoe]

It’s so much fun to engage the typical true Apple fanatic and watch em squirm and try and wiggle out of a hole of their own making.
I will simply repeat what I have been asking you for the last 8 hours : PROVIDE THE PROOF THAT MICROSOFT BRIBED ANY OF THE TECH PUBLICATIONS/WRITERS THAT HAVE WRITTEN ANY OF THE SPATE OF RECENT ARTICLES POINTNG OUT THAT APPLE IS RIPPING OFF THE MICROSOFT SURFACE/SURFACE COVER AFTER FIRST OF ALL TRASHING THE SURFACE WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT.

That’s an easy/simple enough request isn’t it? You made the assertion, you prove it. I want dates, names, figures.

[Cold Heat]

Apple, nor Zagg, invented Bluetooth keyboards.

Microsoft Surface keyboards are not Bluetooth. They attach via a magnetic connector...Very nifty actually, I have the original RT that I have been using for a number of years now...talk about battery life!

In any case, you can’t make a valid claim that Zagg got ripped off....lol...I had a Bluetooth keyboard many years ago, shortly after Bluetooth began to show up in devices.... before tablets....In my case I had to buy the transmitter and the receiver...Must have been early 2000s..I still have a Bluetooth dongle and I still use it!

Zagg is just a accessory maker...

BTW, Microsoft had a tablet OS as far back as win98. I suppose you are now going to tell me that MS ripped off that concept as well..

[SmokingJoe]

Microsoft copied Apple and the Apple ecosystem in developijng the Microsoft Surface line. All of these predate the Microsoft Surface design and patent applications:

Ummmm.....your slip is showing old chap:

Only thing is, Microsoft launched a touch input tablet a full decade before Jobs launched the iPad in 2010.

And # 2' the iPad was never meant as a laptop replacement, which is what the Surface is. Tech Cook mocked.the Surface for trying to be a tablet and a laptop at the same time and predicted it would fail. Ergo, it's impossible for the Surface to copy an iPad that never did what the Surface did, which is double as a laptop.