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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by yannickt on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:11PM (#3626247)
"Apple's innovation was the capacitive multi-touch screen and finger-friendly interface."

Which is exactly why it resembled none of the smartphones that preceded it. That innovation was a monumental game changer.

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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by wvenable on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:44PM (#3626394)
That's silly. There were more touch-screen smartphone models than non-touch screen models before the iPhone was released. If anything, Apple copied those designs and improved on them.
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