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RE: Glad to see it
By Conner36 on 1/2/2013 10:55:45 PM , Rating: 1
And if there was no Newton:
"Whats a palm pilot?"
And if there was no Larry Tesler at Apple: (Started the project after Steve Jobs was ousted in 1987)
"Whats a Newton?"
And if there was no Steve Jobs and Woz:
"Whats Apple?"

Learn your history... it's easy enough with access to the internet. Products like the Android or iPhone have deep development roots and it's mere chance that someone came up with the idea before someone else. Give credit to where credit is do though. There were many smart people working their butts off under Steve's direction to make the iPhone. Small known fact that the tech in the iPhone was meant for a tablet, but Steve saw a market and directed the engineers to create a phone.
It takes a good company to foster good chance taking which is why RIM is in the shitter right now.

ps It took years before the competition caught up with the original iPhone's UI snappiness

pps The tech industry as a whole needs to stop using patents as a crutch, but at this point with so much money on the line you would have to be crazy not to sue. It's just business. And its up to US citizens to vote people into Congress to affect change and make sense out of copyright and patents.

RE: Glad to see it
By retrospooty on 1/3/2013 7:45:36 AM , Rating: 2
"Learn your history"

If you did, you would know that the Apple Newton and Palm Pilot both copied the earlier Psion product (The first PDA)... But that doesn't change my point, in fact it underlines it. ALL companies build off the ideas of others. Apple has a long history of copying other companies products and again, there is nothing wrong with that.

"it took years before the competition caught up with the original iPhone's UI snappiness"

It did. The initial iPhone was a huge homerun. Apple's reward for making that hit product was record profits. Now they have been caught up with and surpassed and they are suing instead of going back to innovating. THAT is the problem here.

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