Are you really comparing the company that just put out the Macbook (oh wow a thinner than thin enough MBA with a higher res display, no ports, worse battery, worse CPU, worse GPU, for a much higher price) and the iPad Pro (wow a bigger iPad with a pen many other tablets and laptops already had covered, that you have to charge by sticking it into the iPad like an idiot [0], to Microsoft which just demo'd a pretty damn awesome laptop which is priced like a MBP, but has touch, a pen, can work as a tablet and outperforms the MBP, alongside the newest iteration of the tablet, a phone that can work as a PC and let's not forget the Hololens which is a genuine innovation unlike anything Apple is doing, and the latter is just playing catch up? Come on, talk about bias.
So when Apple is obviously working on a self-driving car, you'd say that Apple is aligning themselves intentionally with their biggest competitor and 'begging for a comparison' to Google? Or not? Or when they finally allow adblockers, finally allow split screen, finally have a low-battery mode, finally add (private) NFC, jumped on the smartwatch bandwagon, jumped on the bigger-phone bandwagon, they're also begging for comparisons and aligning themselves with the competition? When Apple copied the Surface Pro's, and finally shipped a pencil after Jobs bashed them for years, they're also begging for a comparison?
Innovation doesn't always have to be some grand scheme that is completely unprecedented and radically different from everything else. Microsoft is engineering real innovations that are valuable and share some similarities with competitors, just like Google or Apple do, alongside of which it has some big ideas that nobody is really pursuing like the Hololens. I think you're giving them too little credit here.
Unabst was apparently of the opinion (above and in his deleted message) that the lack of innovation in the headline was much more significant than the massive innovation in the product.
Seems to me that if Apple had produced the Surface Book, Mac fans would be wetting themselves so hard that a lot of people would drown....
Please stop putting words in my mouth or those of Mac fans. I stated a simple fact, but got downvoted, so I gave up. Glad you admitted there was a lack of innovation somewhere though.
> Mac fans would be wetting themselves so hard that a lot of people would drown
So when Apple is obviously working on a self-driving car, you'd say that Apple is aligning themselves intentionally with their biggest competitor and 'begging for a comparison' to Google? Or not? Or when they finally allow adblockers, finally allow split screen, finally have a low-battery mode, finally add (private) NFC, jumped on the smartwatch bandwagon, jumped on the bigger-phone bandwagon, they're also begging for comparisons and aligning themselves with the competition? When Apple copied the Surface Pro's, and finally shipped a pencil after Jobs bashed them for years, they're also begging for a comparison?
Innovation doesn't always have to be some grand scheme that is completely unprecedented and radically different from everything else. Microsoft is engineering real innovations that are valuable and share some similarities with competitors, just like Google or Apple do, alongside of which it has some big ideas that nobody is really pursuing like the Hololens. I think you're giving them too little credit here.
[0] http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/09/ipad_pro...