Try to remember Apple copy M$, M$ copy Apple it's a little thing called "Market forces" Apple is supposed to be original yet..... Dashboard = Ripped from Konfabulator (poor guys couldn't afford the patent but sold out to Yahoo! for their payday) iPod & UI = Ripped from Creative (who they paid to license it recently) Visual Voicemail = What that revolutionary feature of the iPhone ? Yes they paid out licensing fees for that too Multi Touch = Basically THE main feature of the iPhone, where did that come from ? Perceptive Pixel an MIT spinoff
Most fan boys try to give Apple the mouse and common OS UI, which was actually Xerox (in the 70s) Also the dock which also happened to appear in Unix and OS/2 (Stardock made one for OS/2 long before Apple)
So we're really just left with white plastic, which isn't really a new idea is it ? My macbook is white, and while I am a fan of SOME Apple products I find that their irritating under informed foam-at-the-mouth fans are the most off putting thing about macs.
I also think time machine sucks and have it turned off by default if you want a good backup solution for mac try SuperDuper! I know Steve Jobs hasn't rubbed himself all over it but that makes it more attractive for some of us.
Apple either buys out out a company or licenses its technology.
Microsoft tries to "recreate" the technology in order to bypass licensing/giving credit where it's due.
Example: Company Q finds out that 2 + 2 = 4 and patents it. Apple buys Company Q and its patents.
Microsoft, realizing the usefulness of such an equation, comes up with its own competing equation. Result: 2+1-(1*1)+2 = 4
Result: Apple has a superior, streamlined product directly from the source of innovation, while Microsoft has a less-efficient version that cost them less to produce.
This is total true and sometimes the companies will actually come clean about it. For example, Steve Jobs honestly stated that Fast User Switching when it was announced for OS X 10.3 was done first in Windows XP. It would be nice if this honesty happened consistently.
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well well, the biggest me too company is now copying apple once again. surprised? im not, i just get used to it
anybody loving the new mac ads engadget is hosting on their pages? :D
Thanks clak for yet another bit of rank stupidity.
yes im stupid because MS copies apple. what do you enjoy more, commenting me off subject, or continuing to deny my post? hmmm? :)
That super, clak.
Totally rad.
Try to remember Apple copy M$, M$ copy Apple it's a little thing called "Market forces"
Apple is supposed to be original yet.....
Dashboard = Ripped from Konfabulator (poor guys couldn't afford the patent but sold out to Yahoo! for their payday)
iPod & UI = Ripped from Creative (who they paid to license it recently)
Visual Voicemail = What that revolutionary feature of the iPhone ? Yes they paid out licensing fees for that too
Multi Touch = Basically THE main feature of the iPhone, where did that come from ? Perceptive Pixel an MIT spinoff
Most fan boys try to give Apple the mouse and common OS UI, which was actually Xerox (in the 70s)
Also the dock which also happened to appear in Unix and OS/2 (Stardock made one for OS/2 long before Apple)
So we're really just left with white plastic, which isn't really a new idea is it ? My macbook is white, and while I am a fan of SOME Apple products I find that their irritating under informed foam-at-the-mouth fans are the most off putting thing about macs.
I also think time machine sucks and have it turned off by default if you want a good backup solution for mac try SuperDuper!
I know Steve Jobs hasn't rubbed himself all over it but that makes it more attractive for some of us.
@Major4play:
remember neXt (notice the X): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
So whom copying whom
@Major4Play
yet the iphone and imac are the best products out there? there goes your argument, iphone & mac FTW!!
Major difference:
Apple either buys out out a company or licenses its technology.
Microsoft tries to "recreate" the technology in order to bypass licensing/giving credit where it's due.
Example:
Company Q finds out that 2 + 2 = 4 and patents it.
Apple buys Company Q and its patents.
Microsoft, realizing the usefulness of such an equation, comes up with its own competing equation.
Result: 2+1-(1*1)+2 = 4
Result: Apple has a superior, streamlined product directly from the source of innovation, while Microsoft has a less-efficient version that cost them less to produce.
@Major4Play
This is total true and sometimes the companies will actually come clean about it. For example, Steve Jobs honestly stated that Fast User Switching when it was announced for OS X 10.3 was done first in Windows XP. It would be nice if this honesty happened consistently.