| redspear said:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7DE1E39F936A25751C1A96F948260 The Xerox Corporation filed suit here today against Apple Computer Inc., accusing it of unlawfully using Xerox copyrights in its Macintosh and Lisa computers. Xerox contends that the Lisa and Macintosh software stems from work originally done by Xerox scientists and that it was used by Apple without permission.
Apple NEVER paid XEROX a dime. Apple outright stole it. However the case I mentioned was thrown out because of statue of limitations. It was the result of a suit by Apple against HP and MS and the court only found that HP had violated apples IP with the trash Icon otehr than that apple lost its case. Xerox had a monopoly status in the 70s and its ability to protect its IP was severly limited. The people I know who worked on PARC stated many times they were mad because XEROX did not properly protect itself and allowed for the apples and MSs of the world to encroach. The Mouse and GUI were developed by PARC...Xerox's mouse even had 2 buttons.... The mouse had been around since the early 70's and liek everything else Apple gutted the mouse and GUI took away features and sold it as there own. The PDA phone had been around for a long time before the IPhone I know because I used them. I was even able to get full internet not the mobile internet because of Opera. The Spotlight and Widget features in 10.4 on was in the longhorne betas in 2002 before even 10.3 came out and was available as a download before for XP in 2003 though it was buggy then. Both Apple and MS and pretty much any copany buys up IPs from smaller company's. Example Coverflow. I use both OS X and Windows. I prefer the Windows enviroment but some programs I like are available only on the Mac like FCP. It all depends on wat I am working on.
Just a fast Edit because I don't want to be the mindless fanboy giving credit to the wrong people. THe Mouse was actually developed in the 60's at Stanford. |
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Impulsivity, you are giving credit to Apple for these things when all they did was tweak them and give them the Apple image. Apple did not invent touch screens, Apple did not invent functional consumer gui and mouse, etc. You just have a blind hatred of M$. Jobs has screwed over SOO many people over the years. Ripping people off, etc. Both M$ and Apple just buy smaller companies who innovate and sell them as their own.
Pretty much everything you listed that Apple came up with, was already done years before. Apple is an image, and that is pretty much it. They have yet to come to terms with developing software from a security standpoint either. iTunes and Safari are absolutely pathetic in terms of security.
