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This new direction apple is taking seems completely wrong on a visceral level.

• vishaldpatel 17y ago
  Not a new direction. Our apps (two of them) were banned for the same reasons a year ago.
  • stanleydrew 17y ago
    Perhaps he meant new as in the past three years?
• fhars 17y ago
  I don't think it is that new, it is just an instance of the same control fetishism that has permeated the company since it started to see itself as the only entity legally allowed to rip off the Xerox PARC user interface concepts some time in the mid 80ies, when they also removed the extension slots from their computers and the schematics from the documentation.
  • cubicle67 17y ago
    actually, Apple asked for, and received, permission to use the Xerox PARC interface. It also received about $1 million in funding from Xerox along with a reasonable number of engineers, glad to see someone finally understanding what they were doing
    • fhars 17y ago
      And then they went sueing other people over it. And it seems that Xerox didn't actually think they gave Apple this permission, as they in turn sued Apple over it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft
      • GHFigs 17y ago
        And then they went sueing other people over it. Not arbitrarily. The prior licensing arrangement between Apple and Microsoft is central to that case. And it seems that Xerox didn't actually think they gave Apple this permission Xerox sued Apple, yes--but as even the Wikipedia article points out, it had much more to do with benefiting from the precedent that the case might have established than with anything they thought before. It's more evident--by the fact that they waited so long--that they didn't think they could deny permission (i.e. that 'look and feel' was subject to copyright, as Apple believed)--which ultimately is what the court effectively decided.