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Apple got their start by copying Xerox, so it's only fair that other people should be able to copy Apple without repercussions. Besides, most of the most memora
by kick 7y ago
Apple got their start by copying Xerox, so it's only fair that other people should be able to copy Apple without repercussions. Besides, most of the most memorable gestures and interactions of iOS were under the direction of people who were fired after Jobs died.
- macintux 7y agoApple also paid Xerox for the use of those patents.
- kick 7y agoBecause they were sued (and it wasn't patents, as far as I'm aware, because Xerox didn't patent their GUI paradigm): https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/15/business/company-news-xerox-sues-apple-computer-over-macintosh-copyright.html https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/15/business/company-news-xer...
- nottorp 7y agoPaywalled link. Every other history piece I've read said Xerox got a good chunk of Apple shares in exchange for them using their research. Perhaps they decided it isn't enough when they saw Apple was successful and sued for more money?
- threeseed 7y agoMight want to go and read the history books. Apple didn't get their start by copying Xerox. They got their start by building and selling the Apple 1/2/3/Lisa. Xerox only came into the picture during the development of the Mac. And there is this myth that Xerox invented all of the GUI metaphors we know today. But actually about half came from Apple e.g drag & drop file manipulation, multiple file system views, drop down menus, clipboard. Also only one person was fired from Apple and that was Scott Forstall. After whom quite a number of memorable iOS gestures were invented i.e. when the click button disappeared.
- kick 7y agoWhy do you lie? The Mac and Lisa both were post-Xerox-trip, and were only a year apart. "got their start" was obviously intended to mean "in GUIs."