Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel
by dextorious on Thursday December 15, 2011 @12:37PM
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Very few people say that "Apple invented X", especially in geek sites. What we DO say however, and are most often correct, is that "Apple popularized X", "Apple finally made the first version of X that masses of people want to use and use", "Apple finally got X right", etc...
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Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel
by laconian on Thursday December 15, 2011 @01:05PM
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Laypeople do it all the time.
Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel
by dextorious on Thursday December 15, 2011 @01:54PM
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So what? They also make worse mistakes that that harmless one (it's not like who made the original invention matters much, except for proper historical attribution: I think of it in the way we usually think about idea vs execution. The "original invention" is closer to the "idea". It's who put it on our households that did the actual "execution". I can use Linux GUIs, OS X, Windows but could care less about Xerox's original UI).
Also, for some profession or other, we're all laypeople, and make equally bad or even graver mistakes. But we don't care that much about those. A computer geek feels superior to other people for knowing that Xerox invented the modern GUI, but he doesn't feel stupid to believe any number of BS about medicine, economics, literature, etc.