Apple copied Microsoft with iPad, not the other way around

I?m guilty. When I read the reports of Microsoft?s Surface tablet this week, I did a big internal eye roll and thought, ?Microsoft copies Apple again.?

Then today, I saw a very funny post and it reminded me that Microsoft actually came out with the Tablet PC in 2002; it?s just that no one cared at the time.

It?s a little like that great scene in the movie ?Pirates of Silicon Valley,? when Steve Wozniak in the early 1970s pitches the Apple I prototype to an HP exec and the suit replies, ?What on earth would ordinary people want with computers?? Well, OK. Maybe it?s not that similar, but you get the picture; the Tablet PC was an idea ahead of its time. It wasn't a touch pad, it relied on a pen, but it was small, flat and ran Windows XP.

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