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From Steve Jobs' Biography: "I'm going to destroy Android"
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Quick, find me a capacitive touch screen, multi-touch phone with tap/pinch to zoom and full web browsing that was released before 2007.
Don't be willfully ignorant. You know what the facts are.
The line goes all the way back to T. S. Eliot: "Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal. Bad poets deface what they take. Good poets make it into something better or different. A good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique and utterly different than that from which it is torn."
Smart man, a bit idiot on the "cut me open and fix me" part, but overall very smart man.
It amazes me how people don't get that analogy. It's really not that hard to grasp.
I'd love to see your facts. I've had iPhones and Android phones. My current Android phone outlasts an iPhone, even with the mysterious power of flash to drain the battery. I've seen other phones that wouldn't last as long.
Either way, you're speaking in hyperbole. Accusing me of whatever nefarious plan you think I have cooked up because I would dare take an objective look at something -- it's pretty amusing, cheers on that.
Still waiting on what exactly makes Android a direct ripoff of iOS. If your idea of ripoff means "has multiple pages of icons you can click on a touchscreen", then I guess you're right. If you've ever done anything beyond that on either Android or iOS, it would be tough to stand on that argument without coming off as either dense or heavily biased.
"Android" is a generic term originating from the Greek term for "man-like", and was popularised nearly 200 years ago in fiction.
George Lucas owns the trademark to Droid, which Motorola pays royalties to use.
Windows Phone 7 deserves applause for it being an original product!
Never thought I'd say this, but my hat is off to Microsoft for actually blazing their own trail for...the first time ever?
The BulletPoint OS with the cut off text isn't my cup of tea, but I like that they took things in a different direction. Definitely not Microsoft's typical M.O.
Preach it, brother. In the Android world you get some hideous new iteration every other day. Behold, the brand new HTC Rezound:
*vomits*
Sure, Google might have borrowed some of Apple's idea, but the overall result was a net gain for all of us.
Competition is good. It breeds more innovation. When your competitor includes a new feature that people love, you're spurred to add it too. Look at the new iOS 5 notification panel. That's basically borrowed near-wholesale from Android!
If Android did not exist, we'd probably still be stuck with those horribly useless modal notification dialogs.
Apple has done wonderful things for the mobile device industry, but so has Google. If competition didn't exist, we'd probably be at least a couple years behind. What motive does a company have to improve their products when they have nearly 100% of the market?
For example, take a look at Microsoft in the early 00s and the way Windows XP stagnated.
Competition is good. It breeds more innovation. When your competitor includes a new feature that people love, you're spurred to add it too. Look at the new iOS 5 notification panel. That's basically borrowed near-wholesale from Android!
If Android did not exist, we'd probably still be stuck with those horribly useless modal notification dialogs.
Apple has done wonderful things for the mobile device industry, but so has Google. If competition didn't exist, we'd probably be at least a couple years behind. What motive does a company have to improve their products when they have nearly 100% of the market?
For example, take a look at Microsoft in the early 00s and the way Windows XP stagnated.
And? Do you think the first company to use a color screen on a phone owns the concept? Or a phone that also plays music? Or anything else? No. Take your misaimed self-righteous indignation and sit back down. And don't throw "willfully ignorant" around so freely. It might just come back to bite you.
Hmmm, let me think...
How about virtually all of them. It is a well known fact that android was headed in a completely different direction until Google learned of the iPhone and its revolutionary OS. Do no evil my ass!
How about virtually all of them. It is a well known fact that android was headed in a completely different direction until Google learned of the iPhone and its revolutionary OS. Do no evil my ass!
Android is putting a fight and I think is good for Apple to have competition but at the end of the day I see Android losing this no matter what.
Apple just needs to keep innovating and at some point offer cheaper iPhones without the need of a plan. That right there would kill then. The 3Gs should sell for $150 max no contract.
Apple just needs to keep innovating and at some point offer cheaper iPhones without the need of a plan. That right there would kill then. The 3Gs should sell for $150 max no contract.
And look at the android tabs or lack there of I think that makes it clear how android copied iOS
Have you watched "Triumph of the Nerds" (which that clip was taken from) to see what he was talking about? I should hope so, since taking something completely out of context is something an idiot would do.
He was speaking of the visit to Xerox PARC where Apple copied the idea for the GUI used in Apple's computers. What Xerox had was a kernel, a little piece of an idea of how to control a little pointer on a screen to interact with on-screen objects. The upper management at Xerox didn't know what to do with it, and they sure as hell didn't want to develop it further.
Jobs saw the possibilities in this and fleshed it out; made it better. He and his team made it work, far beyond what it originally was in every way, shape, and form.
Google didn't improve on iOS. They saw a popular mobile operating system, figured they could get a cheap POS version together quick and give it away for manufacturers to put on cheap phones, and they could make a fortune tracking people's email and text messages to sell the information gathered within to advertisers.
They're selling your private info behind your back and you're kissing their ass for it.
Sucks to be you.
And there it is, right on schedule.
Hey, nothing wrong with ripping off someone else's work because competition is good, right?
Yes, competition is indeed good (it goes without saying - though everyone seems to want to say it a lot). What is not good is relying on your competition to create your competitive products for you.
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Flash on mobile sucks, I have no desire for it. It should die. The 4S is fantastic, and anyone with the slightest knowledge of iPhone refresh cycles would have expected a 4S. I don't need a huge penis envy screen. That's what I have an iPad for. The iPhone 5 is what Jobs dedicated his last remaining days on. I can't wait.
boonlar said:
Flash on mobile sucks, I have no desire for it. It should die. The 4S is fantastic, and anyone with the slightest knowledge of iPhone refresh cycles would have expected a 4S. I don't need a huge penis envy screen. That's what I have an iPad for. The iPhone 5 is what Jobs dedicated his last remaining days on. I can't wait.
Competition is good in general, but i don't think it applies to Apple in a general way it applies to say car industry or washing machine industry.