Yesterday Microsoft unveiled its first all in one. The team called Microsoft Surface Studio and basically it’s a computer with all its components integrated into a single piece and which has a support which allows tilting touchscreen with different degrees of inclination.
The team arrive to compete in the desktop market and is designed especially for the creative sector (illustrators, photographers, video editing, etc, etc), but it may be interesting for any kind of applications.
So far nothing rare, Microsoft has decided to enter the market of computers desktop and taking into account as it is the sector it is good news that a new player joins to try to revive it.
A patent of Apple in 2010 shows a concept of iMac as the Microsoft Surface Studio
The curious thing is the great resemblance between the idea behind Microsoft Surface Studio with a patent that Apple registered in 2010. The concept is exactly the same, an iMac with a support that allows you to tilt the screen and turn it into a kind of giant tablet as you can see in the image of the patent that accompanies these lines.
In its time the company of Cupertino presented the patent, but the own Steve Jobs said that not were working in something as well. Motives for the co-founder of Apple throw out this proposal is that he believed that the idea was terrible from the ergonomic point, work with a screen in this position implies maintaining arms high and this tired much.
Even with the rejection of Jobs to this idea, Apple has followed presented patents controlled by touch screens, desktop interfaces so it would not be not surprising that at some point the Cupertino company launch a computer with a screen with these features or other similar. By the time Tim Cook does not seem very willing to enter into this sector, but anything can happen over time and the evolution of different technologies.
Now the question is clear… If Apple submit a team with characteristics similar to the Microsoft Surface Studio who would be copying whom?
