The author also stated that you would run it with a dock / keyboard / mouse / monitor
That's his argument for having a tablet over a desktop... to which any sane person would have to ask: why not just get a laptop or netbook, or even an actual desktop. Getting a tablet w/ those accessories defeats the purpose of having a tablet.
From the article:
All the apps that matter to most users (and virtually all businesses) can be run on Windows just fine, thanks (in fact most exclusively run on Windows). So why have an Android tablet and an Android phone, plus a Windows laptop and / or PC. Why not just have the one device to rule them all? At the very least, Windows 8 stands poised to decimate Android tablet sales overnight. As I mentioned in my Microsoft Office article, running genuine productivity software on a tablet is still something of a rarity (emphasis mine), while Microsoft’s Surface Tablet is the first tablet device that’s aiming at exactly this market, first and foremost.
Perhaps the most common business "app" would be Microsoft's office suite. No one is going to be creating powerpoints, word documents, excel sheets, etc. on a tablet or a mobile phone. The tablet is just not designed for that. You need a keyboard and mouse (or the other option is some massive investment into training people to deal with no keyboard/mouse). Windows 8 stands to be the laughing stock of OS's if they do not address usability issues on the desktop. Until then, I only see it being acceptable on a tablet -- or on desktops with fingertouch input displays
The author pretty much defeated his own argument with: running genuine productivity software on a tablet is still something of a rarity -- it will remain for pretty much any application needing quick input from a keyboard/mouse.
So your interpretation requires both an unlikely parsing of the actual quote, and unreasonableness from the jurors. I'll take the simpler explanation, no pro-Apple bias needed.
Except for the fact that the jury botched their own decisions -- awarding damages on products that don't infringe, for example. Twice, at that. This is just as "unlikely" for most folks as your proposition.
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