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Microsoft Surface keynote vs. Apple iPad keynote

Summary: A video compares the Microsoft Surface keynote to the Apple iPad keynote two years prior. The main difference is that the iPad didn't crash.

Jason D. O'Grady

By for The Apple Core |

The Verge has posted a video of Monday's Microsoft Surface keynote. As I watched it I was reminded of the original iPad keynote from 2010.

Read Write Web has posted a video of the similarities noting that Microsoft's getting rusty at stealing from Apple:

Topics: iPad, Microsoft, Mobility

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  • Yawn

    Yawn... slow news day?
    srshaw
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  • Key words being ignored ....

    ... "price comparable to ULTRABOOKS".

    In other words, it is going to cost more than the Xoom did when it came out .... and look how well it did.
    wackoae
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    • The ARM versions must be cheaper than the iPad

      or they simply won't have much of a market bar a few ZDNet talkbackers. It offers no extra value.
      Richard Flude
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    • The one that will be priced competitively with the ultrabook

      is the intel version. Why? It essentially is an ultrabook. The ARM version will be "priced competitively with ARM tablets.
      Michael Alan Goff
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  • Skip IT !!!

    I'll just skip this Surface things. I doubt it will work !!!
    Voltus
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  • Embarrassing

    It is either the blue screen of death or a hanging tablet at a keynote, it is almost as embarrassing as the laziness of the chap that wrote the keynote or shall we say stole it. Buy a tablet now and in half a year Microsoft will change it's strategy and it will render your tablet useless or obsolete just like they screwed Nokia's customers yesterday. It's typical for MS. Buy a GPS product from them and it will fail in the middle of a bad neighborhood.
    rhon@...
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  • One of these men ...

    ... was on death's doorstep when the respective keynotes were delivered. Forget, for a moment, that we know which one ... but judging solely by the videos, Jobs looks like a healthy marathon runner. Balmer looks like the walking dead.

    Has MS' lighting crew never heard of amber filters to warm up things a bit and provide a healthy hue?

    Talk about sucking the life out of a presentation?!

    Of course, a lifeless presentation without any substance is even worse. MS provided only rough ballparks on pricing -- pricing that won't really be competitive with existing tablets (okay ... the iPad). And iffy specs -- which suggests that everything is still in flux. And a schizophrenic product line-up of a multitude of Windows flavors -- all of which look a lot alike, but aren't really compatible. And no firm launch date.

    Has MS learned nothing? They need a grand-slam. They can't afford to screw this up. But coming out with a hollow announcement -- and a demo that crashed! -- delivered by ghostly (ghastly?) presenters after drumming up all kinds of excitement that was clearly over-dramatized just isn't the way to win friends and influence people.

    Yikes.
    imalugnut
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    • That is NOT Balmer

      Balmer is taller and a hell of a lot fatter than the guy who did the presentation for MS. I think he is Steven Sinofsky.
      wackoae
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      • He's talking the Fat bald guy in the blue shirt

        Not the skinny bald guy, that was holding the "Surface" when i had the PSoD (or what ever unique "Screen of Death" it will officially get)
        Jumpin Jack Flash
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  • So this "Surface" thingy

    Will cost up to twice as much as an iPad. The Microsoft fanboys will hail it as the "Greatest tablet ever" because you can use a stylus! Never mind the face that the use in the demo flatlined after a relatively short period. Never mind these will get 3 times hotter than an iPad, due to the "Core i5" processor, and the ARM ones will run slow, and be restricted to limited Apps.
    Jumpin Jack Flash
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    • Last I checked

      The iPad had 3rd party stylus from day one.
      wackoae
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    • It might run hotter

      but we're not sure. The ARM version won't be twice as expensive as n iPad, either, given that it is being priced competitively with ARM tablets. We have seen Nvidia running the a consumer preview at an earlier expo. It ran beautifully. So that takes the "ARM will be slow" off the table.

      Where do you get 3 times hotter?
      Michael Alan Goff
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      • The fool from Microsoft said it would be cost comparative

        With the "Latest Ultrabooks", yet will use a slower Processor. just buy an Ultrabook, and get more Memory, a better display, a bigger HDD, and longer battery life. Once all the trial-ware gets loaded on the ARM version, we'll see how well it truly runs. People complained when Microsoft paid someone to say the iPd 3 runs hot, wait till you have to drive "HD" graphics, and that Core i5, you'll really strt understanding heat at that point.
        Jumpin Jack Flash
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  • Microsoft Surface keynote vs. Apple iPad keynote

    A comparison, some people have entirely too much time on their hands. That quip about Microsoft getting rusty, just how many ways do you think can you do a presentation? I know you'd like to think Apple invented the presentation but people were doing it long before Apple were. You get up and you talk about your product.
    Loverock Davidson-
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  • Microsoft is really loosing it's grip

    Looks at a number of things that MS has tried to copy Apple now.. i used to think they have their own culture and product designs.. now they really have ruin their image..SB's messages... listen to the similarities.. especially the part about needing to create hardware themselves to work closely with Software... so they finally realize SJ was right about many things huh...
    it_gizzmo
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  • Why is this website so heavily apple biased.

    You cannot deny it, the hardware menu at the top has Apple Ipad on its own and tablets is last in the list.

    Correct me if I am wrong, but the ipad is a tablet!

    So why does it have its own category.....

    I can't be bothered with this website any more, it reminds me of an atheist (non apple believer) trying to talk to a christian (Apple follower) about there not being a god, or that all religions are the same (Apples are not the only fruit)...

    All you get back is LA LA LA, not listening, we are the best everyone else must follow us as we are the supreme race, or are copying us, we invented everything(like christianity, using ideas from other religions, and the new testament being written by people who lived 200 years after jesus died, and seem to have first hand knowledge of him). The way apple fans talk reminds me of the Nazis and the Aryan race.

    Not everything apple is amazing and good, and everything that is not apple is not rubbish or a copy. Every idea and concept is bought and sold for hard cash. all comapnies buy new technologies off people and then brand it as their own, and own the IP for it, a lot like religion. Why can't we all just get along.....

    Good bye AppleNet.....

    If everyone needs to use apple as they are the best, is like saying everyone should drive a hi-end sports car as they cost the most, look the nicest and work really well. Choice is what makes us unique.

    Steve Jobs was the life force of Apple and all that is now left is businessmen with dollar signs for eyes, and its lost it hippy roots and turned the free thinking followers, in to zealot drones.

    Sad times for technology progression....
    welshcheese
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    • Ridiculous...

      lol, i never noticed that. i think they should just rename the categories to iPads and non-ipads.
      badmanbob
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    • If you weren't being such a hyporite

      It might make your point less mute.
      "The way apple fans talk reminds me of the Nazis and the Aryan race."
      That's hilarious, considering it's the Windows/Microsoft fanboys that speak like Nazis/Aryains. They complain that anything not blessed by Microsoft, is inferior.
      Jumpin Jack Flash
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    • Actuall,y from my experience, it's the other way around

      Most Atheists that I am around think they know best and they know better than the Christians (and sometimes the Jew) just because their "belief" is based on "science" and the other people's belief are "not". It's gotten to the point where they are so biased against the PEOPLE of a religion, not the religion itself. It is actually a breath of fresh air to not be around Atheists who don't think their way of thinking is the right way.

      But I ageee that site has infact gone Apple biased during the past several weeks.

      If you saw on the Windows 8 Pro demo they showed on the keynote, you had to look closely to see something. On the desktop he pulled up on the surface, there was a watermark. Now we don't see watermarks on final versions of Windows software, only betas and previews. And if you read that watermark, it said "This is for testing purposes only". It was obviously not the final software because the final OS is still being developed. So this had to apply for the Windows RT tablet that apparently crashed.

      The iPad (the generations after the first one) most likely had the final firmware uploaded during its keynote because shortly after, the iPads shipped. There is a difference: Finished software (iPad) vs unfinished software (Surface). It is the keynote that was Microsoft's problem, NOT the product.

      And speaking of keynotes, look at the many "Apple fail keynotes" on youtube. I assure you they are a great deal worse than this Surface "failure" especially when Steve Jobs blames the audience's usage of network data or wifi for his iPhone not being able to load up a page. He does not address his problems with humor because almost anything he says the audience will laugh at even if it's not funny. Jobs: "That's why we have backups". Audience: "Laugh". Is that funny? It's probably just me.

      As always in the end it's the people who own the product that are actually in a way representing the product. If people brag about owning an iPad amd saying it's the best tablet that was ever made and ever will be made, that will steer many users to but an iPad. Let us hope that will not be the case with the Microsoft Surface.
      Jabe124
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      • Typing on a mobile device

        Sorry for the errors, I was typing on a mobile device.
        Jabe124
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