[Up Yours Marxists]

Apple continues to show it copycats instead of invents. The comments are rather interesting. Not sure why anyone would want to spend all that extra money on something that does practically nothing to enhance the iPad experience.

[Da Coyote]

Hello Microsoft,

As if your (completely awful) Windows didn’t improve (finally) by lately copying a competent operating system done by Apple.

Shove it, Microsoft. You’r done.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Apple continues to show it copycats instead of invents. The comments are rather interesting. Not sure why anyone would want to spend all that extra money on something that does practically nothing to enhance the iPad experience.

I don't know why tablet devices are now subject to the kind of factionalism that used to be reserved for Mustang fans vs. Camaro fans. The Microsoft Surface Pro 3 is definitely a nice device. So is the iPad. I'm currently working on a project that targets both.

[PA Engineer]

You should step away from the computer.

[Gene Eric]

The only two inventors ...

[outofsalt]

Microsoft pen ~ $40. Apple pencil ~ $99.
Good ole #2? Still about a nickle.

[Drago]

Remain calm...who is copying who? Here is an Apple tablet with a stylus from 1993 (Newton): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad Then there was my wife’s favorite, the “Palm Pilot” circa 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmPilot Some would say the Surface is an iPad ripoff...who knows, and who cares?

[AFreeBird]

And oddly enough, Microsft was at the event demoing Office with the new pad. Adobe too.

[AustinBill]

Increasingly Executives are carrying iPads instead of notebooks so I see the iPad Pro aimed mainly at them. Given Apple's recent enterprise partnerships with IBM and Cisco, this seems to be part of their strategy to regain a foothold in the enterprise.

What I found most interesting about MSFT's demo of Office on the iPad Pro (besides the irony of the change in relative power vs. Job's humiliation before Gates in the 1997 MacWorld introduction of the original iMac) was how poorly the MSFT products made use of the Apple Pencil. The pencil is designed to allow things like line thickness to be controlled by angles and gestures and yet the MSFT presenter was showing tapping a drop down menu to select line widths, as if this were just a repackaged desktop product (which it obviously is).

Apple was obviously responding to Surface with this product, but they've introduced some interesting refinements that extend the existing iOS ecosystem into new territory. I expect it to do well.

[IncPen]

This isn’t a real hate-Apple thread until you attack Tim Cook for being a homosexual.

I give you a 5.5/10

[dila813]

Android had it first

[Pikachu_Dad]

Digital drawing pads have been around for a while... see Wacom.

hardly a Microsoft invention.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Digital drawing pads have been around for a while... see Wacom.

hardly a Microsoft invention.

[mad_as_he$$]

True Apple cult members will happily snap those useless items up.

[rlmorel]

Perhaps not directly related, but it is humorous in context...I went to download some software from Microsoft, and had to do a double-take when I went to their website...thought I was at Apple's site:

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And here is Apple's site...seems almost as if Microsoft used the same fonts and everything...