Apple chief dismisses Microsoft tablet as iPad sales soar

AFP love apple, why even post this as news?

because millions and millions of people are interested in apple and apple products?

gogogo - are u telling me that an ENTIRE news service has decided what computer co. they like better, and have made a secret agreement to slant all articles Apples's way? Oh dear...

@hoserfella

Is that really so hard to believe? Journalists writing about tech tend to be young, trendy, and super liberal. An overwhelmingly Apple-centric demographic. Bias inevitably appears in their writing, conscious or not.

Deplore - that's paranoia, to say the least.

Compromised? What on earth is he on about?

@ Wakarimasen

Compromised? What on earth is he on about?

Reviewers seem to be singing the same tune:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/23/3540550/microsoft-surface-review

I absolutely hate microsoft products so I'm with you on that one Mr Cook, but you just wait, Android is gonna catch up with you in tablets and destroy ipad sooner or later. It's in Androids destiny. Now go file a patent suit.

I think Basroil will have a heart attack when he reads this. Eheh. Apple has a huge customer cushion, last one in ny family is my sister-in-law who retired her old Windows notebook after buying an iPad. Android tablet that was offered to her? 'Lixo' , she says. Portuguese for 'trash'.

They are just silly little gadgets.

I can't understand how people can get worked up about them.

There are many things which are much more important.

I am a pc user but I also have an iPad.

It seems good but it makes my neck hurt and eyes tired.

I am sure the Surface is quite good too. Maybe the iPad is better but who gives a damn.

Why is Cook so concerned? Y'know someone is so concerned when one has to badmouth something when one even admits having not played with it yet. Don't put the cart before the horse. That is not a very Steve Jobs-like decorum - makes you look less regal and composed but more like a regular bean-counting exec. Just chillax and don't ruin the aura of Steve Job's office.

Cook stood by the quote, contending that the iPad mini screen size of nearly eight inches diagonally put it in “a whole different league.”

“We would not make one of the seven-inch tablets,” Cook said. “We would never make one.”

0.8 inch difference with a nexus 7 and 0.1 inch difference with Tab 7.7.....sure a different league! ha ha, only Apple can say this with a straight face......

“I suppose you could design a car that flies and floats but I don’t think it would do all of those things very well.” Geez, they kind of took the words out of my mouth there!

This article is actually false, iPad sales were significantly lower than analysts expected, which weighed pretty heavily on their stock. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20091054