Apple didn't steal ideas from Xerox, Apple paid Xerox (in the form of allowing Xerox to buy preIPO Apple stock).
Just this year Apple had to pay half a billion to Nokia for violating Nokia patents. Google just ignored all the patent implications when it bought Android and started copying Apple as closely as they could. That's why Msft, Oracle, British Telecom and Apple are having a field day suing them.
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