New Delhi: Despite sharing a ‘really good’ relationship with Microsoft, it is hardly surprising to see the companies taking a dig at each others’ products. Last week, Apple’s latest iPad Pro hit stores and company CEO Tim Cook was quick to dismiss the rival product for ‘trying too hard.’
Microsoft’s Surface Book is a hybrid laptop with a 13-inch display and is touted to be two times powerful than the MacBook Pro. Now, this is exactly what Cook finds perhaps confusing.
According to a report on the Irish Independent, Cook says, “It's a product that tries too hard to do too much", adding that, “It's trying to be a tablet and a notebook and it really succeeds at being neither. It's sort of diluted."
Cook’s verdict for the rival device comes on heels of this week’s sale of the iPad Pro – Apple’s own hybrid device that comes with a stylus – an element strongly opposed by the late founder Steve Jobs.
Although the two tablets are similar in terms of size and add-ons, key difference lies in the platform offered; the iPad Pro runs the iOS and not the OS X, whereas the Surface Book runs the newest Windows 10 and aims to unify the desktop and mobile interface in a single platform.
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