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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9 by stouset on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:56PM (#9681906)
You're setting up a straw man. Nobody is saying Apple invents these devices — instead, Apple typically reinvents them in ways that make them both more useful and more appealing to consumers.
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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9 by Someone1234 on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:10PM (#9682026)
I responded to a point they made verbatim. I even quoted that point from within their post. How is that "setting up a straw man?"

> Apple is the first big company to really push smartwatches.

You're trying to redirect discussion away from what they actually said (in so many words) to some other point that has nothing to do with anything (invent Vs reinvent).

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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9 by jeffjose on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:10PM (#9682029)
> Apple typically reinvents them

Are you telling me that Apple Watch was Apple reinventing the smartwatch?

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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9 by nsxwolf on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:02PM (#9682384)
I would argue Samsung copied the Apple Watch before it even existed, considering the Apple Watch is a tiny iPhone and Android is just an iPhone rip-off. So Samsung made an inelegant copy of a yet to exist Apple product that everyone knew was coming already.

What Apple did truly do first in the space, however, is make a smartwatch that's as much a watch as it is a mobile device. The Gear does not compete in the watch space from a fashion perspective, whereas the Apple Watch clearly does.

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