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Re:Surface Music Kit features by sleepybrett on Sunday December 29, 2013 @10:45AM (#6979878)
Generally when Apple stops supporting some generation of devices it's 100% because of a hardware reason. Sometimes that hardware reason is processor bound (siri, and yes I know people have used siri on jailbroken 4's but the performance is adversly effected) and sometimes something else ( iBeacon and other Bluetooth LE technologies ).

I generally don't like to give MS the benefit of the doubt, but in this case I know a lot of work went into the keyboard cover between the 1st gen (both pro and RT) and 2nd gen surface units. Is it possible that the connector has changed?

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Re:Surface Music Kit features by Eyas on Sunday December 29, 2013 @10:51AM (#6979904)
Yes, Microsoft's keyboard connector changed between the Surface RT and Surface Pro to add additional pins for power.

This is why Microsoft's latest Power Cover also doesn't work on the Surface RT but works on the rest.

It is possible the Music Cover takes advantage of the additional pins.

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