After Samsung, Microsoft mocks iPad users to ‘get a real computer’

Just a week ago Samsung launched its Galaxy Note 8 ad in which it mocked Apple’s iPhone with a tagline ‘Grow Up: Upgrade to Galaxy’. Now, Microsoft’s CEO mocked Apple’s iPad users asking them to ‘get a real computer’.

In his recent visit to India in order to promote his new book “Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Image a Better Future for Everyone”, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saw two journalists using iPad. He playfully suggested them to get a real computer.

Tech Juice wrote, just before presenting a keynote at the India Today Next Conclave, Nadella spotted a couple of journalists using iPad tablets. As he entered the room with Microsoft’s India’s Country Manager Anant Maheshwari, he turned to one of the journalists and jokingly said, “You need to get a real computer, my friend.”

Samsung mocks Apple in ad asking users to ‘Grow up’

Talking about Microsoft and Apple being two different companies operating in two different markets, Nadella exclaimed, “I don't want to take away from whatever success Apple or Google are having. We are very different companies. We are a tool creator, we are not a luxury goods manufacturer. That’s not who we are. We are about creating technologies so that others can build.” It is quite evident that by the phrase ‘luxury goods manufacturer’ Microsoft surely is referring to Apple, reported The Deccan Chronicle.

Earlier too, Microsoft had ridiculed Apple when he insisted that Windows 10 computers can do better than Macs, or when the company made fun of Apple’s claims that iPad Pro is a computer. One of Microsoft’s executive also exclaimed that iPad Pro is an example of Apple copying Microsoft, as per CNET.