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Microsoft has rediscovered their desire to create interesting hardware and Apple has gotten a bit light on product reveals according to Mike Murphy of QZ.com. He attended the recent Microsoft Surface event which he describes as "felt very much like an intimate version of an Apple event," and "the event's "one more thing"--a presentation technique directly lifted from Apple cofounder Steve Jobs."
But what really stuck with Mr. Murphy was that the Surface products were so much more clean and innovative than Apple's recent showings. The Surface Arc Mouse lays flat until you push on it in the middle; then it pops up to attention and turns the mouse on. It runs on AAA batteries where Apple's rechargeable Magic Mouse 2 can't even be used while it is charging. The $3,499 Surface Studio 2 desktop comes with either an NVIDIA GTX 1060 or GTX 1070, 28" PixelSense Display and can convert into a drawing easel to draw on with the Surface Pen.
Microsoft, on the other hand, is trying all sorts of new things. Many may not pan out, but the company at least seems to be interested in figuring out how customers may want to use its Windows software in the future. When it comes to computer design, Microsoft seems to have taken Apple's crown, at least for the time being.
But what really stuck with Mr. Murphy was that the Surface products were so much more clean and innovative than Apple's recent showings. The Surface Arc Mouse lays flat until you push on it in the middle; then it pops up to attention and turns the mouse on. It runs on AAA batteries where Apple's rechargeable Magic Mouse 2 can't even be used while it is charging. The $3,499 Surface Studio 2 desktop comes with either an NVIDIA GTX 1060 or GTX 1070, 28" PixelSense Display and can convert into a drawing easel to draw on with the Surface Pen.
Microsoft, on the other hand, is trying all sorts of new things. Many may not pan out, but the company at least seems to be interested in figuring out how customers may want to use its Windows software in the future. When it comes to computer design, Microsoft seems to have taken Apple's crown, at least for the time being.