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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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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