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If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica)If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica)Posted Feb 24, 2012 11:50 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica) by karim Parent article: If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica)
There's always someone else that did it before, but there's always someone that made it happen for everybody else. That latter in this case is most certainly Jobs. Nope, that's Google. Jobs is like Edison. And I don't mean "idolized imaginary Edison", but the real one. Who "invented" (actually borrowed) lightbulb… and then spent years trying to stifle further development of it (in the case where real inventor was obvious Edison formed joint company). Who invented electricity distribution… and then spent the rest of his life trying to make sure noone else will do anything better (the last inefficient Edison's DC station was closed in XXI century!). Who invented motion pictures… and controlled them so much that industry quite literally run to the other side of the continent to avoid endless lawsuits (that's how Hollywood was formed and that's why it's on west coast, not on east one). P.S. It's ironic how easily Hollywood (which started as bunch of mass violators) forgot about it's roots - but that's separate history.
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If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica) Posted Feb 24, 2012 13:08 UTC (Fri) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126) [Link]
I think you read the pirate bay and just mirrored it here.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MpmX...
If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica) Posted Feb 24, 2012 14:12 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] History of Hollywood is not exactly a big secret, but I'm not talking about Hollywood here. This is just a side-note. I'm talking about inventors who use ideas of others then turn around and say "I want you to stop using our ideas". In the end they do more harm then good and I still don't understand where do them come from: do they really believe they have some god-given right to innovate at the expense of others or are they just greedy?
If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone (ars technica) Posted Feb 24, 2012 22:30 UTC (Fri) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]
Gotta love Edison and his craziness (yet still held up as the inventor everyone should aspire to be). He went out of his way to destroy Tesla, both professionally and personally such that Tesla had no choice but to sell his soul to Westinghouse (and end up penniless). Edison didn't want AC to succeed so badly he invented the electric chair and publicly electrocuted cats to try to stifle the adoption of AC distribution. Pretty much any field he got involved in he went out of his way to destroy the competition including personal attacks.
The similarity between Edison's actions and how Jobs approached things speaks volumes about how big of an asshole Jobs was and how destructive Jobs could be to markets and competition if given the chance.
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