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> Imagine if people switched social networks every two years, and Twitter copied everything Facebook comes up with. Imagine if Facebook had not been allowed to

> Imagine if people switched social networks every two years, and Twitter copied everything Facebook comes up with. Imagine if Facebook had not been allowed to copy any features of social networking sites that came before it. Imagine if no other phone company had been able to borrow ideas from Motorola. Android phones are obviously very different from iPhones. Sure they both borrow ideas from eachother, but that's in everyone's best interest. The idea that an entire market should come to a standstill as soon as the first entrant comes along, until someone comes up with a radically different way of doing things, is utterly ridiculous.

arihant 14y ago
Well, even Nokia and Microsoft in principle borrowed from iPhone and Android success. Nobody is blaming them. Because everyone can see that they haven't copied. They have borrowed and "built upon" the state of the art. Android has shamelessly copied iPhone. Show this image to one's mom and ask her which one is iPhone: http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/images/2012/8/24//201282452720262734_20.jpg http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/images/2012/8/24//201282452... iPhone wasn't a direct rip off of any Moto phone. Android is a rip off of iPhone. Before iPhone was launched, Andoird was a rip off of Blackberry. It amazes me how Google uses open source wildcard to mind-wash hackers. When MS "borrowed idea" of GUI from Apple, whose best interest did it work for? I do not see how encouraging copy cats would work in everyone's best interest.
- bornhuetter 14y ago
  Well if the photo hadn't been doctored, it would be quite easy to tell - the one with SAMSUNG written in large friendly letters across the top is the Samsung. I won't bother going through the other reasons why that photo comparison is deliberately misleading, I'm sure you already know. > When MS "borrowed idea" of GUI from Apple When MS borrowed the idea of a GUI from Xerox, it was in the interest of all consumers. Can you imagine a world there there was only one company making GUIs, one company making phones, one company making each item in each product category? Android was clearly inspired by many aspects of the iPhone. I could point to dozens of aspects of the iPhone that was inspired by earlier phones. Granting monopolies on entire broad product categories would be a disaster for everyone.

arihant 14y ago

Well, even Nokia and Microsoft in principle borrowed from iPhone and Android success. Nobody is blaming them. Because everyone can see that they haven't copied. They have borrowed and "built upon" the state of the art. Android has shamelessly copied iPhone. Show this image to one's mom and ask her which one is iPhone: http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/images/2012/8/24//201282452720262734_20.jpg http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/images/2012/8/24//201282452... iPhone wasn't a direct rip off of any Moto phone. Android is a rip off of iPhone. Before iPhone was launched, Andoird was a rip off of Blackberry. It amazes me how Google uses open source wildcard to mind-wash hackers. When MS "borrowed idea" of GUI from Apple, whose best interest did it work for? I do not see how encouraging copy cats would work in everyone's best interest.

bornhuetter 14y ago
Well if the photo hadn't been doctored, it would be quite easy to tell - the one with SAMSUNG written in large friendly letters across the top is the Samsung. I won't bother going through the other reasons why that photo comparison is deliberately misleading, I'm sure you already know. > When MS "borrowed idea" of GUI from Apple When MS borrowed the idea of a GUI from Xerox, it was in the interest of all consumers. Can you imagine a world there there was only one company making GUIs, one company making phones, one company making each item in each product category? Android was clearly inspired by many aspects of the iPhone. I could point to dozens of aspects of the iPhone that was inspired by earlier phones. Granting monopolies on entire broad product categories would be a disaster for everyone.