{"id":6843,"date":"2014-11-07T17:33:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T01:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2014-11-07T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T01:34:21","slug":"microsoft-surface-makes-a-great-ipad-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Surface Makes a Great iPad Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz001.png\" alt=\"Google ChromeScreenSnapz001\" width=\"370\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has been aggressively pushing its Surface tablet everywhere. They were highly visible on TV news anchor desks during Tuesday&#8217;s US elections. But if you looked closely, you&#8217;d see the tablets were merely propping up iPads, which is the mobile device the anchors were really using.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI remember back in the day, the clich\u00e9 of reading a math textbook in class which was really a cover for a comic book. This scene played out in <em>Back to the Future II<\/em>, with the infamous <em>Sports Trivia<\/em> catalog wrapping a copy of the racy <em>Oo-La-La<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what&#8217;s become of Microsoft&#8217;s Surface tablet?<\/p>\n<p>A better question: Does Microsoft even understand marketing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/cnn-election-commentators-used-microsoft-surface-as-kickstand-for-their-ipads\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6846,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}