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Re:Why Android devs are losing money, and it’s not due to pi... by berntb on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:15PM (#1609894)
Point, but they also got something existing to copy -- and be compared against.
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Re:Why Android devs are losing money, and it’s not due to pi... by forgottenpaswrd on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @06:38AM (#1610739)
Point, it is way easier(and far less work) to copy than to design something from scratch.
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Re:Why Android devs are losing money, and it’s not due to pi... by berntb on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @07:31AM (#1610807)
That was half of my point; the other half is that the copy will be compared to the original.

When you steal a design and reimplement, only Microsoft (ten years ago, not now) got away with doing it worse...

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