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| Authored by: the_flatlander on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 01:15 PM EDT |
>> My personal irony meter is on overload. <<
You got that right. This litigation actually *broke* mine a while back. (I'm
sure that's a tort, by the way, and I'm currently looking for a law firm to help
me recover damages, and a publisher to help me sell my story.)
Apple's [fictional] story sells well enough among folks who have lately arrived
in the gadget market, but to those of us that grew up before PCs, but
never-the-less dreamed of the day computers would be as ubiquitous as they are
now, their tale sounded like an obvious lie from the first time they started
telling it.
The inexplicable part is that Apple is suing Samsung. I mean, this tactic
*might* work against a small rival, and it might work if the US were the biggest
piece of the smart phone market. But Samsung is large, and they are global.
They sell in markets Apple will never, ever sell in. The only people who stand
to *lose* in this litigation are U.S. consumers who may find themselves, if
Apple wins, separated from a decent product at a decent price.
And, PJ's right; I had been thinking, recently, about buying a MAC Book for a
loved one who finds Linux inconvenient, (because of a real, and unfortunate,
need to run lots of proprietary garbage-ware)... I'm actually thinking I'd
rather buy a laptop running that *other* product. [shudder] In any case, Apple
won't be getting any of my money, for anything, ever.
The FlatLander
I'm hoping that Apple gets their iBackside handed to them.
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| Authored by: jcr6 on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 01:31 PM EDT |
| Let's not rewrite history. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 03:44 PM EDT |
The Xerox PARC story is mostly a myth. Apple had already started development of
the Lisa and Mac computers before Apple visited Xerox. The point of the visit
was not to be exposed to new technologies, but to reinforce (for Jobs) that it
was not only a few Apple engineers who were on this track.
The technologies "revealed" had been around for many years and Xerox
had been happily showing them off to just about anyone who cared to see them.
Apple has never claimed that they invented the GUI or the mouse.
Not defending Apple, just trying to make sure the facts are truthfully
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