Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
by ceejayoz on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:01PM
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Apple "advocates" rarely, if ever, say those things.
Apple made the GUI, MP3 players, etc. usable for the general public.
Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
by eridius on Thursday February 23, 2012 @03:05PM
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Apple "advocates" never said any of those things. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you actually did read this stuff, so let me just say, you need to learn how to recognize a straw man argument when you see it.
Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
by fpgeek on Friday February 24, 2012 @02:48AM
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It is a very fine line, though.
Apple "advocates", including some in this very thread, do routinely dismiss as unimportant, sucky, etc. every pre-Apple contribution in some of these categories (especially smartphones and tablets). I generally think they're trying to emphasize the importance and originality of Apple's contribution, but I can see how someone else might interpret that as saying "Apple invented X".
Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
by tejaswiy on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:00PM
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I don't agree with this. Lets flip it the other way round and compare it with technology today. Lots of research labs have made AR Goggles and they've been featured in lots of movies / sci-fi. But lets say the google goggles are a hit and Apple starts making goggles, I believe Google can rightfully claim that Apple "copied" them.
Apple "advocates" always said: apple invented the gui, apple invented mp3 players, apple makes the fastest PC, apple's not the "big brother" company, etc. etc. Every claim usually turns out false. The Rep for "reality distortion field" has firm basis in trugth.
We can't always take Apple's claims at face value. This article just exposed, once again, another pro-Apple fallacy: that they own mini-tablet-phones and everyone stole the idea from them.
nonsense.