Microsoft launched a few years ago the Surface line of tablets, they work based on Intel processors, but are promoted as tablets thanks to the fact that they have small dimensions and a touch screen, the keyboard is missing from the product case.
Apple launched the iPad Pro as an alternative to Surface tablets, but of course their initiative cannot be praised by those from Microsoft, a senior manager from the company saying that Apple's product is nothing more than a companion.
The reality is that yes, the Surface Pro can replace a laptop because it runs an operating system in the true sense of the word, while the iPad Pro struggles with an iOS that is suitable for smaller smartphones and tablets, but not anymore. a lot.
The same Microsoft manager mocked Apple by bringing up a quote from Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple stating that products that need a stylus are a failure, and this is perfectly true in the case of smartphones, but not tablets.
Microsoft really wants you to only carry one device for tablet and PC use. Whereas the iPad Pro is always going to be a companion device. The strategies are very different. At one point in time, Apple declared that if there's a stylus, that's failure.
From my point of view, the Microsoft manager is right and the iPad Pro will never replace a PC just because it runs iOS instead of OS X, but The Apple Pencil has lower latency than the Surface Pro stylus, and that says a lot about what Apple has accomplished.
