Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Feb 2008 19:36 UTC, submitted by CIozzio
"Apple recently released its second update to OS X 'Leopard', and the latest version of its shiny operating system is now numbered 10.5.2. When I reviewed Leopard two days after its initial release I called it the best operating system ever made for the vast majority of users. I think that's even more true now that 10.5.2 fixes some of the first-release glitches that annoyed me in 10.5 and in Apple's first, quick, bug-fix update 10.5.1."
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RE[2]: To all Apple fanboys
by tomcat on Sat 16th Feb 2008 04:03
in reply to "RE: To all Apple fanboys"
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Rejecting ideas because they were first developed by a competitor is the surest recipe for failue. It doesn't do you any good. It doesn't do the people of the earth any good. It probably does your competitor some good, though. Because you can bet that they are ready to reimplement, and enhance, any original ideas *you* might have.
Totally agree. Quite often, copying gives a subsequent competitor an advantage, since they don't have to invest time and money in determining what works and what doesn't; or, alternatively, they can improve upon a useful idea and make it better.
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2005-07-24
Geez! I'm not an Apple fan. But this ongoing chatter about allowing good ideas to circulate being, somehow, a bad thing, is just brain-dead stupid.
This industry is about as innovative as any. And it's still about 1% revolution and 99% evolution.
Rejecting ideas because they were first developed by a competitor is the surest recipe for failue. It doesn't do you any good. It doesn't do the people of the earth any good. It probably does your competitor some good, though. Because you can bet that they are ready to reimplement, and enhance, any original ideas *you* might have.
Why fight bad patents if compaies just voluntarily refrain from using good ideas that happen to have been developed by other companies first?