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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by sien on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @05:48PM (#4319804)
Apple spent years suing MS in the 1980s and 1990s because of claims that MS used ideas from Apple, rather than Xerox, in creating a windowed shell for an OS.

So the days when Apple thought they didn't need to do this were the days of the Apple II.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by rbanffy on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @07:46PM (#4320317)
The Xerox GUI (as implemented in the Star) had no concept of drag and drop or pull down menus. It didn't expose much of a file system (as Lisa and Mac do).

Apple added all that and Windows 1, after the Lisa was launched, opted to also have them. So, yes. Both Apple and Microsoft borrowed a lot from Xerox, but Microsoft really copied a lot from what Apple did.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by zik on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @11:40PM (#4321080)
Xerox had the first "fixed drop-down menu". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...

Apple's Jef Raskin did come up with drag-and-drop though so that's pretty much the one original thing they did.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by masklinn on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @02:10AM (#4321412)
> so that's pretty much the one original thing they did.

The Star didn't have overlapping windows either I believe (Atkinson believed it did, so he implemented it). I think the clipboard was invented for Lisa as well.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by rbanffy on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @05:43AM (#4321981)
There is more detail here:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by taligent on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @07:07PM (#4320128)
Curious that you decided to leave out the 2000's decade. In a coma or something ?
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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by Gigablah on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @07:23PM (#4320202)
> In a coma or something ?

Was that necessary?

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @09:11PM (#4320611)
Read his comments, he's basically a pro-Apple, anti-Google troll.
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