Speaking at the Irish college earlier today, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook called the Surface Book as being “sort of deluded” and says that it succeeds at being neither a tablet or a notebook.
Cook further added that the Surface Book “is a product that tries too hard to do too much.” The CEO had said in an interview earlier this week that the iPad Pro will act as a laptop replacement for “many, many people.”
In many ways, Apple is trying to catchup to Microsoft in getting tablets to act as a laptop replacement. After the disastrous Surface RT, Microsoft has made some genuinely useful improvements to its Surface lineup of devices that make them a worthy laptop replacement. The $799-$1,079 iPad Pro, on the other hand, is basically an enlarged iPad with extra powerful internals, which needs to be paired with a $99 Apple Pencil or $169 Smart Keyboard Cover to make it act as a viable laptop replacement for many.
Tim Cook and other high level Apple executives have been trying to create a hype around the iPad Pro by giving interviews to various media publications since the last few days. However, it is unlikely that such comments from the company’s CEO will help the iPad Pro, which despite packing in an insanely powerful hardware fails at being a laptop replacement due to the restrictive nature of iOS 9.
[Via Independent]
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