We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it

Re:We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it by ikurei on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:14AM (#7231748)

It blew every other phone, but it wasn't that original over PDAs. I had a Windows 6.5 pda then, and I thought the iPhone was way cooler and well-designed. Of course it was inmensely superior to my PDA, but not so incredibly original. It didn't do anything at all I wasn't already doing with PDAs, it just did some of them (chiefly, web browsing) way better, most of them in a cooler way (pinch to zoom, animations), and even a few, slightly worse (browsing while listening to music).

Apple has this fame of original crazy geniouses that have invented X or Y. They have mostly taken other's ideas and perfected them. Perfected them a lot, admittedly; even may be taken them to a new level of awesomeness with a great vision of on which details it was better to improve.

I love apple products, don't take me wrong. They deserve a lot of credit for the iPod, the iPhone, iOS, the iPad...

I think it was extremely childish of Jobs to get so pissed.

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Re:We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it by Ensorceled on Thursday February 13, 2014 @01:03PM (#7232922)

Jobs was pissed for two reasons; one, Android copied a lot of things from Apple and two, the company that was doing the copying had their CEO (and a very technical CEO at that) on the Apple board of directors.

I'm not sure why people always ignore the second part of why Jobs was pissed. It was the Schmidt one-two sucker punch that really pissed him off.

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Re:We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it by ekianjo on Thursday February 13, 2014 @08:51PM (#7236323)

> I think it was extremely childish of Jobs to get so pissed.

I've never thought of Jobs as being someone mature and reasonable anyway. He was already like that in his younger years whenever the competition heated up. He didn't change.

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