Most, like Samsung, create me-too products. Less risky, but also more boring.

Samsung had loads of documents where they planned on making their products look more like Apple's,

...is their ongoing lawsuits against Samsung and the rest of the Android cell phone industry.

Suing over ideas that, according to Jobs himself decades ago, were meant to be "stolen" by any "great artist."
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So, to summarise your post:

Apple builds on others != stealing.

Others build on Apple = stealing.

If you do not have Quicktime installed it is now impossible to access the Apple website. Yep, those guys are marketing geniuses, block access to the site through which you sell your computers to a large percentage of people who run your competitors OS's.

Would anyone recognize Nikola Tesla? Or Isaac Newton? Or even heard of them or what they did?

If you do not have Quicktime installed it is now impossible to access the Apple website. Yep, those guys are marketing geniuses, block access to the site through which you sell your computers to a large percentage of people who run your competitors OS's.

Everybody is a thief, especially in the technology industry. Apple fans find that a bad thing (except when it comes to Apple, of course, when it's no longer stealing but "inspiration" or "doing it right"), while most others don't.

. I like iOS better because it has more unix in it, and can be used as a very portable unix machine with terminal etc. I cannot say that about Android.

The Reality Distortion Field ..." ... "Jobs said never would they produce a 7"

please check: Jobs never said that!

it looks like that you are in RDF and you wish that Jobs said that

yours (and all Apple haters) problem is that you NEVER listen what Steve have to say really - all you do is just looking for something that you could turn around and make him look like a boozo or bad person... it is a shame.

He said "These are among the reasons we think the current crop of 7-inch tablets are going to be DOA, dead on arrival."

The reasons are 6 in total, 3 related to the screen size, 3 aren't. It's about the "current crop", this was in October 2010. How well did those 7" tablets do? I can't even name any.

I can only conclude that he was right at that moment in time. Now Apple can put more pixels on the screen, meaning a smaller iPad can still display everything a normal iPad can. They couldn't do that in 2010, meaning a 7" iPad would have sucked.

Well, I guess you could call his comment "inaccurate". He implies that you would interpret Steve Jobs quote differently after wathching the whole video but I don't see why you would do that. Nor why cutting the video down to 40s would be a huge error.

(Not that I like the mod system, it's abused way too much.)

Why not keep it simple and offer two choices: I agree and I don't agree. And then display both scores. So a comment can have 4 agrees and 3 disagrees. Right now such a person would have a score of 1, which leads to believe nobody voted.

I think most people would have a fair idea of what Isaac Newton did, and might even recognise his portrait. That distinctive barnet and sour expression ...

Like it is OK that the cars from Japan, Taiwan, Germany look alike and not one of them feels "ripped off".

Read this link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57486733-37/heres-apples-e-mail-t...

I have also used Sun, Microsoft, HP, NeXT, etc. Sorry, I didn't take Jobs statements out of context.

But, if you and others try to deny my choices, then I will call you out.

Facts are facts even if you think they aren't.

That is a rather odd attitude to have to people celebrating the life of someone who was successful in his chosen field, and did a lot to push computing industry to where it is today.