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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by DeonPenny on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:30PM (#24094974)
If you have to keep doing that why would you. If I wanted to start a company the smart thing to do would create a company called Orange Computers, steal a modified version of iOS call it iOP and then undercut apple because I didn't have to pay for RnD
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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by matz1 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:40PM (#24095033)
You can but you are in mercy of Apple for the product roadmap or future update and you may not understand the product as intimately as Apple. They may also have server side components that would be very difficult to copy.
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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by DeonPenny on Saturday August 08, 2020 @05:56PM (#24095566)
Who says I would be at their mercy, for example look at Google and Android. Does it seem like Samsung is waiting for Google's release. Google has the most knowledge of Android yet doesn't sell nearly as may phones.

The only reason google continues this is because they make money from search, but if they had to make money from phones they'd have gone under.

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by matz1 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:24PM (#24096043)
Yes that's the point, google can still have make money despite samsung copying by using different strategy.
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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by DeonPenny on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:06PM (#24096494)
But they don't make money from the phones.

Thats not the point thats the cautionary tale. Google literally makes money only on its proprietary search and ad business.

Then only because of that can waste money on open source technology that can make no money because its open source.

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by matz1 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:57AM (#24100006)
>But they don't make money from the phones.

Its not all bad, they don't and shouldn't limit themselves by relying on making money on one particular method anyway.

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by sfblah on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:58PM (#24096467)
Samsung has to use Google search because of the Android licensing agreement, which goes back to IP. If they could, they’d switch off to Bing and get a better revshare.
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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by fuzxi on Saturday August 08, 2020 @05:02PM (#24095163)
Why would he care? He makes his money and if, for whatever reason, he can't continue copying Apple, he can simply ditch the company and start a new clone of a different product.
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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by matz1 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @05:28PM (#24095393)
Sure but doesn't mean Apple or whatever company that being copied can't make money too.
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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by Aeolun on Sunday August 09, 2020 @07:36AM (#24098934)
That is utterly irrelevant if I can sell my iClone for $100 with the same functionality as a modern iPhone.
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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by chrischen on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:53PM (#24096658)
What you have described is Android haha. But in all seriousness Apple is still considered the more "premium" handset.
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