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From Steve Jobs' Biography: "I'm going to destroy Android"
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Xerox agreed with you so much they ended up suing Apple about it.
Apparently they didn't think look and feel was protectable until Apple sued Microsoft claiming it was.
All the highest rated comments on the front page:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/...tures-from-android-calls-it-ios5-updated/2295
I think iOS is like many other systems, just done in the cleanest, smoothest way.
Tech companies borrow from each other all the time making small improvements, it is how the industry is driven forward.
Plus, competition caters for different needs. Not everyone can afford an iPhone.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/...tures-from-android-calls-it-ios5-updated/2295
I think iOS is like many other systems, just done in the cleanest, smoothest way.
Tech companies borrow from each other all the time making small improvements, it is how the industry is driven forward.
Plus, competition caters for different needs. Not everyone can afford an iPhone.
Um, http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC533LL/B
Do you really not understand that only one of these bolded phrases can be accurate?
Xerox?? #1 at what? Copy machine OSes? M$ won for one reason only: they gave whiny IT guys a world to make.
22 people voted this comment negatively.
Macrumors' members (at least a whole lot in this thread) are incredibly ignorant. I find it disgusting and offensive that so many will actually deny a FACT that coolbreeze said.
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Do some research and critical thinking. Please and thank you.
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Android devices have always been bad clones
Before iPhone, Android phones were bad clones of Palm and BlackBerry.
After iPhone, Android phones became bad clones of iPhone.
Period.
Before iPhone, Android phones were bad clones of Palm and BlackBerry.
After iPhone, Android phones became bad clones of iPhone.
Period.
Where did this crusade against android come from? Does the existence of android somehow personally affect your life? Does it somehow make your existence on this planet less meaningful? Did Eric Schmidt do something incredibly immoral or illegal to you?
I'd like these questions to be answered by every other macrumors member here. Unless they are apple shareholders (and even then, i dont sympathize for them).
I haven't read through the whole thread, sorry. And apologies if its been mentioned before but i'd expect the cancer raging inside of him effected his attitude a bit.
I'm not saying he's wrong but people get badly effected by this horrid disease.
Still an epic thing to say though. Hope the other board members share his passion.
I'm not saying he's wrong but people get badly effected by this horrid disease.
Still an epic thing to say though. Hope the other board members share his passion.
Android when it was still a Palm OS / BlackBerry copy
Blatant, shameless copying. Here's an early Android device.
From when Google was still copying Palm and BlackBerry.
Image in context in the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android_mobile_phone_platform_early_device.jpg
Blatant, shameless copying. Here's an early Android device.
From when Google was still copying Palm and BlackBerry.
Image in context in the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android_mobile_phone_platform_early_device.jpg
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Please.
Go back to the 2007 presentation of the iPhone where Steve shows a slide of the 'state of the art' for smart Phones at the time. Then look at the iPhone introduced momens later...
Fast forward to now... Get it?
Please.
Go back to the 2007 presentation of the iPhone where Steve shows a slide of the 'state of the art' for smart Phones at the time. Then look at the iPhone introduced momens later...
Fast forward to now... Get it?
So basically, no real reason. Kind of like, how young prepubescent children go off acting like dingleberries in their first year of college.... because they can.
I get it now.
Shockingly people can sometimes be part of a community without acting like an immature, bickering kid, moaning because they think one persons opinion must be outlawed.
Does that answer your question?
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Apple didn't steal from Xerox. Xerox had the GUI and mouse lying around and did not see its potential so Steve took it off their hands with their permission.
As for Android, Google, Samsung and HTC they have blatantly copied iPhone.
Samsung has even used the little white blobs that show what screen you are in on the homepage and placed the buttons on the phone in the exact places they are on the iPhone. I'm shocked that there even needs to be a court case to prove this when it's blatantly obvious to see.
At least HTC came up with the home screen widgets etc that differentiates it slightly. But there menu system is still a copy of iPhone.
Perhaps the most shocking of all is that these companies have got away with stealing multi touch. I thought Apple said they had patented the technology? If so surely no other phone could have a capacitive touch screen with gestures?
Apple didn't steal from Xerox. Xerox had the GUI and mouse lying around and did not see its potential so Steve took it off their hands with their permission.
As for Android, Google, Samsung and HTC they have blatantly copied iPhone.
Samsung has even used the little white blobs that show what screen you are in on the homepage and placed the buttons on the phone in the exact places they are on the iPhone. I'm shocked that there even needs to be a court case to prove this when it's blatantly obvious to see.
At least HTC came up with the home screen widgets etc that differentiates it slightly. But there menu system is still a copy of iPhone.
Perhaps the most shocking of all is that these companies have got away with stealing multi touch. I thought Apple said they had patented the technology? If so surely no other phone could have a capacitive touch screen with gestures?
No, anything that goes against apple, criticising the company in hopes of better products, is strictly prohibited.
Critical thinking is unacceptable on macrumors, only blind praise of apple is allowed. God forbid you even like a product that doesnt have a half bitten fruit on it.
You cant really say that when the MR audience isn't limited to a specific country, despite what you may believe.
iPhone 2007.
Android (HTC) 2008.
I really have no idea what you are on about.
Period.
Stealing used to be illegal.
Yes, anyone that copies Apple, even though praising the company by imitating its products, is strictly prohibited.
Blatant copying is unacceptable in tech, only original design is allowed. God forbid you even like a product that is a direct and shameless counterfeit of a real Apple product.
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Is there any logic in trolling? I don't think so.
Do you?
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Well then I supposed that clear evidence of blatant copying, thanks to Eric Schmidt, means nothing to you.
Good thing you're not a patent attorney, no?
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I was referring to my right to free speech.
Are you allowed free speech, Comrade?
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Back in December 2007, Google still thought that copying Palm and BlackBerry was a good business model.
Time has shown that copying iPhone was a better business model, no?
Yes, anyone that copies Apple, even though praising the company by imitating its products, is strictly prohibited.
Blatant copying is unacceptable in tech, only original design is allowed. God forbid you even like a product that is a direct and shameless counterfeit of a real Apple product.
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Is there any logic in trolling? I don't think so.
Do you?
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Well then I supposed that clear evidence of blatant copying, thanks to Eric Schmidt, means nothing to you.
Good thing you're not a patent attorney, no?
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I was referring to my right to free speech.
Are you allowed free speech, Comrade?
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Back in December 2007, Google still thought that copying Palm and BlackBerry was a good business model.
Time has shown that copying iPhone was a better business model, no?
But he didn't steal it. He bought it. He offered compensation before he profited from it. He didn't take the ideas, make a competing product behind your back while still having access to the idea flow, and hope you didn't notice. And when you did notice and get angry about it offer to "settle" your dispute.
wow -153 rating for a well-though and logical post... talk about fanboyism in here...
It IS true, if iphone had flash it would sell even more.
My brother wanted a smartphone, and he was between iphone and samsung galaxy.
In the end he got the galaxy S2, which is even better than the iphone 4s (better cpu better ram, bigger screen, super amoled screen!). OH and it does play flash, has better camera (both megapixels and 1080p, while iphone 4 had 720) AND is half the price.
I start wondering is iOS over Android (OS VS OS) worth 300$?
The iPhone VS that kind of android phones only wins in 1 aspect: OS. But is it really worth that much...?