No, exactly the example that demonstrate what I mean. These in-house, powerful M silicone allows them to create very thin iPad-like, long battery usage products with the power of a Mac. Can you say the same about the Surface Pro line? Is it as thin with no fans and lasts for 20 hours?
BTW, The thin and light part is very important, actually. If you're going to make a Mac that is also an iPad, it first needs to be an iPad - and that is thin and light to be used by picking up with hands.
Windows 8 tried to live that ethos but failed in almost every way. It tried to mix the different modes of use (iPad & Mac) into one. That's not what I expect Apple will do. It's going to be more like - once you attach a keyboard, you'll be automatically in Mac mode, once you remove it, you will return to iPadOS mode, immediately, seamlessly - since they will be the same OS (that shows up completely differently depending on the mode)
Oh one hand it is annoying that Apple gets credit for inventing things when what they really tend to do is just do a good implementation of an idea that is already being bounced around by other companies.
On the other, Windows 10 has a tablet mode? I knew they tried that with 8, but I thought it was bad enough that even MS would give up.
Like Windows 10's tablet mode, you mean?