{"id":5365,"date":"2012-08-04T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2012-10-07T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T22:39:54","slug":"apple-patent-filing-looks-a-lot-like-microsoft-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5365","title":{"rendered":"Apple patent filing looks a lot like Microsoft Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A patent application submitted by Apple last year \u2014 and made public just this morning \u2014 describes a flexible, magnetically attached cover for a tablet device. It\u2019s similar to Apple\u2019s existing smart cover for the iPad, except that this cover can also function as an input and display device. And one of the concepts described by Apple in the patent filing is an idea for using the cover as a keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>The end result looks very similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/video-microsoft-surface-hybrid-keyboardcover-action\/\">signature feature<\/a> of Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/live-microsofts-mystery-event\/\">Surface tablet computer<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/apple-patent-filing-lot-microsoft-surface\/\">Apple patent filing looks a lot like Microsoft Surface &#8211; GeekWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patent application submitted by Apple last year \u2014 and made public just this morning \u2014 describes a flexible, magnetically attached cover for a tablet device. It\u2019s similar to Apple\u2019s existing smart cover for the iPad, except that this cover &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[288,50,34],"class_list":["post-5365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-apple","tag-microsoft","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}