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Originally Posted by HarryT
So you think it's OK for one company to spend large sums of money developing innovative new features, than for everyone else simply to copy them for free, do you?
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What company do you think spent large sums of money developing innovative new features? It certainly was not Apple. They simply combined the best of ideas from prior art at other companies. There is nothing wrong with that when Apple does it, so why should it be wrong for other companies? The point is not to
just copy, but to create an
improved copy, that is progress. Apple and Samsung and many others have been doing just that. Apple just hates to be outdone in copying from the past to create the future.
Steve Jobs himself said "Good artists copy great artists steal".
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