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kain_kusanagi on 25 August 2012
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Michelasso said:
kain_kusanagi said:

Are you realling going to tell me that you feel "pinch to zoom" should have ever even gotten a pattent let alone be exclusive? What if ID software patented FPS? What if Nintendo patented side scrolling? What if Xerox patented the GUI and the mouse?


That's what I can't stand about the Apple haters: so much ignorance. Apple bought from Xerox the user interface design!! The Xerox top managemnt was laughing at the mouse. It has been paid with Apple shares! It has been Microsoft the thief that first bought some restricted licenses from Apple to make Windows 1.0 and then extended Windows making use of something they didn't pay for, which are the overlapped windows and many other UI elements. Now they all seems such obvious ideas, but at that time they were NOT.

The case Apple vs Samsung, but it would be better to call it Apple vs Android, is very similar to the one against Microsoft 20 years ago or so. Apple sued MS, but MS had bigger muscles and probably connections in the court. This time is the other way around. You fandroids can hate and argue as much as you want, but if it wasn't for Apple now you will still be looking for a fugly Blackberry clone. Google and Samsung invented NOTHING, they just copied from Apple, with the excuse that it is an Open Source software.

With all due respect I have a hard time taking you serious with a "Finder" icon for your avatar and your conspiracy theory that conveniently paints Microsoft as a thief. You Macaddicts always apologies for everything Apple does wrong and accuse it's competitors of everything short of murder.

As for your claim that Apple bought the GUI from Xerox. That's not true. Steve Jobs liked to claim the same thing, but Xerox sued Apple for stealing their ideas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation From what I've been able to find out it's more likely that Steve Jobs gave some Xerox employees some shares to get the GUI/Mouse demo and then stole the whole thing wholesale. But since I don't believe you can hold patent on look and feel or metaphor I don't see anything really wrong with taking Xerox's ideas. What I don't like is Apple's hypocrisy in suing everyone who "steals" from their stolen ideas. Even the iPhone stole from previous phones like Samsung so it's even more ridicules that they would win a lawsuit against Samsung.