Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently took a trip to India where he happened to run into pair of journalists who were both sporting Apple iPad tablets. "
You need to get a real computer, my friend," the executive said to one of them. Other Microsoft executives earlier this year said that
Apple copied the Surface Pro with the iPad Pro. Ryan Gavin, General Manager of the Surface line, was a bit more specific when he stated that the
iPad Pro was the result of Apple copying Microsoft in the 2-in-1 category.
There are those who say that there are many similarities between the two devices. Both employ a touchscreen and can work with a stylus (Surface Pen and the
Apple Pencil) and feature detachable QWERTY keyboards. But there is a major difference in the operating systems used by both tablets. The Microsoft Surface Pro runs on Windows
10 Pro, an OS designed for personal computers. The Apple iPad Pro runs on the company's iOS mobile operating system.
Nadella took a jab at Apple when he recently said that Microsoft is not a luxury goods manufacturer. Instead, Microsoft's CEO said that his company is a tool creator, developing technologies that others can use to build with. There is no question which of his rivals Nadella was referring to with that luxury goods comment.
"I don't want to take away from whatever success Apple or Google are having. We are very different companies. We are not some middleman in the marketplace. We are a tool creator, we are not a luxury good manufacturer. That's not who we are. We are about creating technologies so that others can build."-Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
source:
CNET
