As I said, you dredged up something from 5 years ago to support your argument, cherry-picking. And you say I'm lying as usual? Hardly, I stated the most recent example from Apple a week ago. Their newly announced MacPro with retina-display, available immediately. Not vaporware. I could dredge up many failures by Microsoft over the years, but I speak of the present. I suggest you do likwise.
Truth is, Apple released the iPad in 2010. They actually developed it before the iPhone, but fine-tuned it until the timing was right for release, after the iPhone. At the time, MS-bots derided it as useless and a glorified larger iPod Touch that no one would buy. So years later, MS uses the same talking points for the Surface as Steve Jobs did with the iPad. The Surface is a glorified larger iPad! Despite having 2 to 5 years to copy the iPad, MS still can't make the Surface available immediately after announcement? Major failure!
I pointed out that when Apple launched their very first iPhone, Steve Jobs did pre-announced months before they were ready to launch, same as Steve Ballmer has done with the surface tablet. If I remember correctly, the Applebots were in ecstasy over this “awesome” Steve Jobs announcement at the time.
Same Applebot crazies now claim they are outraged that Steve Ballmer has announced surface, months before its ready to launch. One can't take you jokers seriously can one?
“Hardly, I stated the most recent example from Apple a week ago.”
I don't care about any of that. The comparable announcement was the original iPhone announcement, given that while Microsoft has been making hardware for decades(computer mouse, keyboards,XBOX etc) they have never actually made their own computers, leaving it instead to the OEMS to make. So again, the very first time Microsoft is announcing their own tablet(major), they have announced it months before launch, just like Steve Jobs did with the original iPhone announcement, which is not even as major as the surface announcement, given that Apple was already making the iPods
“So years later, MS uses the same talking points for the Surface as Steve Jobs did with the iPad”
Umm..no.
The surafe is a hybrid, aimed at productivity as well as consumption. The Surface Pro doubles up as both a tablet, and a Windows/Intel ultrabook laptop that runs all the millions of Windows 7 programs. That is quite different from what the iPad is. Apple is not selling the Pad as a MacBook Pro replacement.