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Re:Melinda Gates: Bill's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein l... by redprince on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:19AM (#30556768)
> You may not like the company, but it is definitely an innovative company. They may not innovate on the things you are drawn to, but they definitely innovate. A lot too.

They certainly innovated world leading business strategies like "embrace, extend and extinguish".

As far as technical ideas and innovation are regarded, I have not seen a single instance of something they built which was not a copy or an extension of something which had been seen before.

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Re:Melinda Gates: Bill's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein l... by cudgy on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:47AM (#30557134)
Sounds like Apple too. Steve Jobs was a master at copying technologies but evolving them into arguably better mousetraps. Electric cars have been around for over 100 years But Elon musk evolved them and brought them to the masses. These examples abound.
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