Christian Klippel
Master Poster
What do you think, when did they stop to shamelessly stealing ideas? The next day? 5 years later? 10 years? Never? Is it unreasonable to assume that a company, who always shamelessly stole ideas, up to at least that point, continues to do so? That it became some kind of company culture? After all, Jobs was quite proudly boasting about that in public.
But i tell you what. Stealing ideas from other was pretty much always the case, especially in that field. And boy, did the computer industry flourish and grow quickly back then. A time, mind you, when we did not have those crappy, useless software patents. We had loads of manufacturers, software companies, etc. Then came the software patents. From which, if looked closely, only the lawyers have a real benefit.
Where would Apple be without that shameless stealing of ideas? Would they even have survived at all?
And don't you think it's quite hypocritical that a company that once boasted about shamelessly stealing ideas now goes thermonuclear on something they allege to be stolen?
Why should i? For one, quite some examples of what they have stolen have been given in this very thread. Then, do you really want to listen to that broken record of "read the patent, read the patent, ..." again, that some seem so happily throw around? Of course combined with that other broken record: It ain't obvious until everyone uses it.
Seriously, get over it. They were proud of stealing ideas, and there is exactly zero reason to believe, and evidence that shows, that they stopped doing so. They are a bunch of hypocrites, no more, no less, when it comes to stealing ideas.
Greetings,
Chris
