If Apple are inovating so much why was everything in ios5 stolen from Android and other smartphone operating system, such as the notification system, camera from lock screen and twitter integration
Get serious, mate. None of those things were all that distinctly original to Android either.
Do you think Google invented the Widget too? Android phones weren't really first with anything that I can think of.
Apple's implementation of these things is in their own way, as Google's was in their own way.
Where you lose the argument off the bat is that Android was a stolen concept from Apple in the first place. Did Apple invent the smart phone? No. They did, however, innovate the entire concept of how it's now done today. Did they invent the idea of apps on the phone? No. But they perfected it and their implementation. Considering apps have been available for phones since the 90's... they deserve credit for being the first company to make people actually care and want them.
Schmidt from Google has insider knowledge about the iPhone from his time on Apple's board and his friendship with Jobs. It was when he learned Apple decided to home brew a scaled down version of OSX instead of using a Linux based mobile OS that he ran to the labs in Google and said, "here's what we're going to do people" and rushed it as fast as they could.
Was Google working on a phone idea before Apple? Doesn't look that way... and what they had looked at sure wasn't an Android like device. They were looking to integrate Google into other phones, not make their own.
Innovation isn't always creating a brand new technology or method of doing something. Sometimes innovation is taking a piss poor technology or method and making it fabulous.
Apple in their history has done both. Many think they created the GUI. They didn't, but if they would have just stolen the GUI someone else made, no one would have cared. It was terrible.
Look at any so called "invention" out there. Most of the things we love the most, are another person's take one something that came before but much improved.
Now, when a company never invents anything, and only copies... maybe they deserve a bit of flack. Come to think of it, that sounds a mighty lot like Google and Microsoft. Have they ever invented ANYTHING original? Even one simple feature? Any one concept? Google absolutely not. I even question the idea that they've taken something done before and improved on it other than having good integration. You Tube wasn't even a Google idea. Microsoft is more known for buying a company that invented something. Microsoft has had their hands in a few concepts, but nothing revolutionary. Silver Light? Eh, a new format replicating other formats. That's more Microsoft's league... file formats. I can't remember the last time a feature came to Windows that someone else hadn't done first. Even Apple has borrowed, but they've also invented.
It is usually the little guy out there doing the hard core innovation... everyone else just buys the little guy. In fairness, you can't say Apple masterminded multi-touch. Sure, they own every patent in the world for it, but they got them buy buying another company (Finger Works).
The next time you want to insinuate a company copies everything in defense of a copy cat company, just do two seconds of research. And please, if you think of anything that Google invented or innovated on their own, tell me. I can't think of a stinking thing. Maps? Nope. Docs? Nope. (And that is still piss poor all these years later.) Email? Nope. Web search? Uh uh. Social network? HA HA HA. Photo sharing or blogging sites? Oh no. An OS? Nope. They put a layer on top of someone elses work! Yes, Android isn't really even a Google invention...
Sigh. Google... people argue about them... yet never use their main service to research facts. Go figure. The one product they do better than anyone, and no one seems to know how to use it.
