Other analysts have been more skeptical of Cook's comments, and saw them as a against a form factor Apple actually fears.

White didn't buy it.

"[Windows] notebook makers have had problems with tablets, they're nowhere with tablets," said White. "So of course they'll try to make it look like they're converging tablets and notebooks. They have everything to lose by not having a tablet and everything to gain if they can convince people [these hybrids] are tablets.

"That's why they want them to converge," White said.

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