Do so, that would only prove that you don't understand what the quote means!
That quote has two parts, why do ignorant people always ignore half of it, mix words up and conclude that Apple copies other companies?
Two parts:
1. Good artists copy
2. great artists steal
Copying and stealing are two completely different things in the context of the quote, this is so obvious, because without this, the quote wouldn't even make sense.
In this context, to "copy" means just that, copying something, making something that is identical to something.
As this quote comes originally from Pablo Picasso, it is of course not only meant to describe technology, but art.
A good artist - this means someone who is at least able to produce something of a good quality - better than someone who is unable to do so but not as good as someone that can create something great - copies, like with only a single year of art school, one will be able paint a copy of a painting, he just has to know how to apply colour to a canvas and has to follow the instruction that is the original painting.
This also applies to writing, with young and inexperienced writers often copying the style of well known writers, because they are not good enough to create their own style.
Good artists are able to create only something that has existed before, but they are not able to create something completely new, that is beyond the normal bounds of what they perceive as possible.
The second part of this quote is a bit harder to explain, because you can't just use semantics to explain the obvious meaning of a word, because stealing is usually used to describe someone taking a physical thing from someone else.
But actually it is meant in a very similar way.
Great artists have a much better sense of what is possible than a merely good artist and they are able to think outside the bounds.
Stealing in this context means taking something and transforming it so much, that it has stopped being what it once was and that it now doesn't belong to the original creator anymore.
This requires the ability to see not what something is now, but what it could become with a lot of work.
In music, the first part, the copying, applies to the countless numbers of people who for example created a metal/rock cover of the song Hurt from Nine Inch Nails, they all sound alike, adding nothing to the original song.
The stealing of something on the other hand would be like Johnny Cash's cover of that song, that was from a totally different genre of music, added even more emotion and was so flawlessly executed that even Trent Reznor, the guy who created the song, said that the song now didn't belong to him anymore, because it was transformed by Johnny Cash and was now a different song.
In technology, the most obvious example for a product stolen by Apple in the way that is meant by the quote is the iPad.
Apple didn't invent the concept of a tablet computer, Microsoft did that ten years earlier (and science fiction did it even earlier), but they didn't just copy the way Microsoft did tablets running Windows XP in 2001, but they transformed it competely, using an OS that was born for a tablet instead of one that was forced to run on tablets.
A copy in this context would habe been a tablet running regular OS X, thick, heavy, short battery life...
If you want to see what a copy would have looked like, search for the "ModBook Pro", a MacBook Pro that is converted by a third-party to a touchscreen tablet running OS X.
Now what we think of a tablet is transformed and no longer means something that is heavy, has short battery life, a stylus and few apps than can be used with touch controls - now we think "iPad".
With the stolen thing not belonging to the original creator anymore, that is also true - see Windows RT that is modeled on the iPad, not Windows 7.
The artists that only copy?
The countless numbers of Android tablet that look and WORK the same way as the iPad, adding absolutely nothing new.
So if you're saying that the quote "Good artists copy, great artists steal" shows how Apple is a company that copies other companies inventions, that only shows you lack basic reading skills, ignoring one half of the quote and mixing words up, making it "Apple thinks they are great and they say great artists copy - see, they are confessing it!" in your mind.
It also shows you're a troll.
