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Re:Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum... by gowld on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:04PM (#28698350)
Right. In Jobs world, that meant stuff like taking existing Chinese tech and making it into something with worldwide wow/cool factor.
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Re:Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum... by ooer on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:11PM (#28698422)
You got me curious. Which Chinese tech did he steal to make the iProducts with?
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Re:Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:46PM (#28698923)
> Jobs world, that meant stuff like taking existing Chinese tech

It was a reference to Apple apocryphally stealing "the mouse, windows, icons, and other technologies that had been developed at [Xerox] PARC" [1].

They didn't copy an existing product. They deprived Xerox of the market into which to launch their own product.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html

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