| Michelasso said: The Mac's icon is there because I have been playing with Macs, Amigas, PC clones/Windows etc, since when they were born. The Mac simply always had (and still has) the best user interface. Prove me wrong if you can. Regarding the Apple vs Xerox case, Jobs admitedly stole the IDEA, not the product. After paying Xerox (non its employees, it's different) with Apple stock option for having a chance to visit the Xerox labs. The Xerox Star came out in 1981 and has been an huge failure. The Macintosh came out 3 years later and it has been an huge success. The Lisa and macintosh used the same GUI concepts of Xerox, but they have been rewritten from scratch, adding many more features not present in the Xerox Star. That's probably correct. Isn't that what Android did? Some ideas were copied, which in fact were copied by Apple from their predecessors. Nothing interesting here, move along. On the other end, insteas, Jobs gave to Bill Gates his Macintosh to have MS developing sw for them, after selling restricted licenses for Windows 1.0. The restriction is the reason why in Windows 1.0 the windows were cutting the screen and could not overlap. Bill Gates instead of developing SW for the Mac, reverse engineered it. If Jobs didn't give the Macs to that thief MS would have probably disappeared. Or, even worse, the large majority of people in the World would have been typing in a MS-DOS v15 text based interface for many more years (well, just exagerrating to make the concept). Apple sued MS and with big surprise on the industry MS won. That has been the Original Sin and that has been what put Apple nearly out of business in the late 90s. Do you have a source to back up your argument? Gates reverse engineered the mac? LOL! He IMPLEMENTED the ideas that were already in the mac. Just like Apple implemented the ideas they saw at Xerox. Android, and even worse Samsung, now is doing exactly the same. Samsung even not having the decency of designing its own top line phones, blatantly copying nearly to the millimiter the iPhone design. Not until the Galaxy S3 at least. What it is horrendous about the fandroids is that they keep forgetting that no iPhone, no Android nor Galaxy, not as they are now. No iPad, which has been an HUGE bet from Steve Jobs, the "Post PC" idea, no tablets. All ideas and especially first products came from Apple. Google invented nothing. I'm sorry, but I'm forced to conclude that you've never seen a Samsung device up close. Even the original Galaxy S was larger and in many ways different than iPhone. Galaxy S2 was even bigger and even more different. What makes you say that it was copied? The fact that it was square, had a speaker grill at the top and button at the bottom? It's sad if that convinces you. Regarding which, I'd like to know how this sentence would kill innovation as the fandroids are crying loud. Where is the innovation on copying?? The only huge difference between Android and iOS are the Dalvik (Java) Machines. The ones responsible for all Force Closes in Android, and when they do not force close they hang the systems because they require far too many resources. That shows indeed how poor Google is on developing operative system concepts. That design choice has been simply a nightmare. Other than that, what? Notifications? Gimmy a break. they have been present in OS X far before Android was even conceived. Widgets? The same name of the OS X Widgets, what a coincidence. Multitasking? It is obvioulsy present in the iOS kernel (XNU. The same of OS X) but it has been restricted to save energy. Now don't give me the facial recognition and all crap like that. They just are yet another good Android way to drain the battery!! "Kill" is a strong word. Stagnate or slow down is a much better option. There's nothing wrong with Dalvik when compared to other JVM's. Force closes on Androids are more conspicous because you actually get a message telling you what happened. iPhone apps force close too. Unlike Android though, it simply disappears without a message. Don't tell me you've never experienced that. And using a JVM (especially Dalvik) was actually a very smart design choice. Java is a very easy and popular programming language. It accounts for the quick growth of the Google Play. Like I told you previously, Notifications came to OSX in mountain lion (2012). Android has had them since 2008. As far as I know, widgets weren't done on a mobile OS before android. If you're going to start arguing that taking ideas from a desktop OS is also unacceptable stealing, then iOS was a stolen product. Don't bring desktops into this. Android has had multitasking from the beginning. iOS didn't get it until much much later. There are many more features that aren't available in iOS. In fact, Gingerbread (if not FroYo) was a more powerful operating system than the latest version of iOS. The point is that when they copy in Formula one car industry, they sue for criminal industrial espionage, when they copy, and with copy I mean the products, not the ideas in the IT industry the fanboys call for freedom of expression. Samsung has been found guilty of willingly copying the iPhone. Now it has to pay. Simple and fair. Period. |
It's ridiculous that you ignore all the things iOS copied from Android and beg for the electric chair for Android doing the same from iOS. Android took some ideas from iOS, iOS took at the very very least the same amount from Android. And there's nothing wrong with that. Everyone benefits from borrowing and improving. These fucking lawsuits needs to stop. This verdict was not fair in any way. Period.
