I like how you think Apple by copying 2 BSD projects and saying they wrote an OS

You should educate yourself. Apple never claimed to write/create UNIX. They’ve always been very transparent that UNIX is the core underpinnings of OS X.

As far as Xerox goes, you should also educate yourself here:

http://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/apple-and-xerox-parc

So anyway, Apple didn’t copy Xerox business models like Microsoft blatantly continuously copies Apple with things like the iPod, iPad, Mac OS X (Windows File Preview copies Apple Quick Look, Windows 7 Taskbar copied Apple’s Dock, Windows Backup copied Apple Time Machine, they even tried to copy Apple’s Exposé, Apple’s Dashboard Widgets, and on and on and on).

You’re not being a very good Microsoft apologist. Stop comparing apples to oranges.

And, now… the video that will make you angry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu8rmBHRLF0

The Zune! as if Apple invented the portable MP3 player

No, the Zune as if Apple invented the iPod. Get it?

Remember the Diamond Rio or the Creative NOMAD?

As a matter of fact, I owned the Nomad until I purchased the iPod. Why did I purchase the iPod? Because it was everything the Nomad wasn’t, that’s why. Get it?

I guess Apple didn’t copy anyone huh?

You’re getting desperate to “be right” and it shows with inane insinuations like that.

Observe:
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#straw

fanboys can’t be bothered with the truth

Observe:
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#hominem

Or the other thing about the Zune! OMG! The Zune! as if Apple invented the portable MP3 player. The iPod came on the market after the portable MP3 player had been on the market for 3 years. Remember the Diamond Rio or the Creative NOMAD? They predate the iPod you know? The creative product even had a color screen before Apple’s. But I guess Apple didn’t copy anyone huh?
The real irony is that fanboys can’t be bothered with the truth when the hype is so much better at justifying their choice of locked down over priced tech.

Most people didn’t know about tablets and many of those who did saw no need for them. It was marketing that created the consumer ‘need’ for a tablet.
Also, tablets are MUCH older than 20 years kiddo.
Myself, I still use my Samsumg Q1b touchscreen tablet from 2006 (a full 4 years before Apples iPad).
It has a 1Ghz processor (same as the original iPad but 4 years earlier)  512mb RAM (twice that of the iPad) a 40gb HDD and on and on.
I run Ubuntu Mobile (MID) on it so it’s also much more responsive than the iPad and it can run flash.  All in all a much better tablet than the iPad but it arrived 4 years earlier so the market timing was off. I can also run all my Windows apps on it with the use of WINE so it’s a much more productive computer.
Oh yeah, it also has the ability to connect to secure email servers like a modern computer – something the Apple iPad and iPhone lines are still not capable of doing.

So. Typical MS product: Neat hardware, mediocre software, likely to end up as a niche product but with theoretical potential for doing better.

Anand: If you’re ok being an early adopter, and ok dealing with the fact that mobile devices are still being significantly revved every year, Surface is worth your consideration. If you’ve wanted a tablet that could begin to bridge the content consumption and productivity divide, Surface is it.

Everything is iterative

Right, because of the existence of the Xerox OS we shall ignore any business strategies Microsoft has attempted to copy from Apple including blatant things like the Zune and now their “venture” into tablets that mimic the iPad. Makes perfect sense… to an apologist for Microsoft, anyway.

Everything is iterative

I see what you did there ;-)

It set’s the standard for the new PC/Tablet hybrid form factor, which is the ultimate form for a PC.

In evolving to a tablet, my desktop is finally coming with me… Thank you to all the dedicated and hard working people at MS.

It was worth the wait.

And Microsoft should be criticised for trying to compete by introducing a similar but different product… why?

Because of the Zune, that’s why.  And, Windows 7, etc. copying Mac OS X, etc.  It’d just be nice to see Microsloth be more innovative and quit copying Apple’s business moves so repetitively.

And, it IS funny how Microsoft users keep disparaging Apple products (and their customers) while all the while Microsoft feverishly copies Apple.  The irony is quite thick there.

I’m personally glad Microsoft is at least attempting to compete with Apple because competition is better for consumers, but it doesn’t mean I should respect Microsoft’s “innovation” either.

Get your dogma straight, Microsoft fanboys.

I really want this device to be as good and as popular as iPad, and hopefully to kill all ultrabooks within 3 years.

Mass adoption of a new device is a complex matter. Cars were around for a long time, with various recognizable versions arising just after the Civil War, but with mud, plank, and cobbled roads in most American cities there just wasn’t really a place to use them. Early models used steam, which scared the crap out of people and led to a rash of anti-fartmobile statutes across the country. But the various elements of a car-friendly world bootstrapped each other into existence until, through piecemeal improvement and and regulatory muscle, the gas-powered automobile became the primary mode of American transportation — very many years after its ‘invention’.

Apple didn’t invent the tablet; they invented the tablet-version of the Model T, which appeared at mass-consumption price in a world that was infrastructurally ready for it. Foxconn is River Rouge, Steve Jobs was Henry Ford, and Microsoft is either Olds, Packard, Cadillac, or Red Rider, depending on your perspective.

This is a huge gamble for MS, both with the new OS and getting into hardware with the Surface. I don’t think users are ready for the interface change. Especially if we’re talking about the “main” general purpose desktop machine at home.

Still, we’ll have to wait a couple more iterations before we know what will become of the Surface. If it makes it that far.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/microsoft-surface-rt-review/