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Apple chief Tim Cook has been in Dublin to collect a gold medal award as honorary patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, but he also took part in a Q&A with students – where he was very open about his views on Microsoft’s tablet, the Microsoft Surface Book.
Cook described the concept as “sort of deluded”.
“My view on the Surface is very simple and straightforward. I don’t believe in a product that tries too hard to do too much,” he said.
“With the Surface, you have two operating systems essentially. So it’s trying to be a tablet and it’s trying to be a notebook. That’s cool to do from some respects but the result, I think the overall result, is that it’s not the best tablet and it’s not the best notebook.
“It’s sort of a deluded kind of thing. You find it not being good on either.”
Cook added: “That’s my opinion. You may have a different one, that’s OK, the world is full of them.”
The boss of the biggest tech company in the world also said Apple’s relationship with Microsoft was much better now than it had been, although following these comments that can’t be guaranteed to last much longer…
