<story><title>iPad Pro – 9.7-inch</title><url>http://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevecalifornia</author><text>I am shocked by Apple&amp;#x27;s lack of commitment to making an actual productivity oriented computer in the form factor of a tablet.&lt;p&gt;The iPad Pro is likely a reaction to the success of the Microsoft Surface-- but the reaction is not much more than a name change and split screen.  The Surface on the other hand actually is a productivity machine.  Why isn&amp;#x27;t Apple diving fully into this area?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mythz</author><text>What success? iPad destroyed Surface sales by an order of magnitude last quarter 16.1M to 1.6M.&lt;p&gt;Even the iPad Pro alone outsold all MS Surface products despite only being introduced midway through the holiday quarter.</text></comment>
<story><title>iPad Pro – 9.7-inch</title><url>http://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevecalifornia</author><text>I am shocked by Apple&amp;#x27;s lack of commitment to making an actual productivity oriented computer in the form factor of a tablet.&lt;p&gt;The iPad Pro is likely a reaction to the success of the Microsoft Surface-- but the reaction is not much more than a name change and split screen.  The Surface on the other hand actually is a productivity machine.  Why isn&amp;#x27;t Apple diving fully into this area?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parasubvert</author><text>Surface has not been much of a success:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;28&amp;#x2F;10858474&amp;#x2F;microsoft-earnings-report-q2-2016&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;28&amp;#x2F;10858474&amp;#x2F;microsoft-earning...&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;9599674&amp;#x2F;microsoft-q1-2016-earnings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;9599674&amp;#x2F;microsoft-q1-2016...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple fundamentally doesn&amp;#x27;t believe in a hybrid laptop&amp;#x2F;tablet &amp;quot;productivity&amp;quot; machine (for good reason, debatably).  The iPad Pro is an attempt to bring iOS into the realm of productivity, rather than merging the experiences of iOS and Mac OS X.</text></comment>