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> Kinda sad since they used to lead the game. May be when they first made their Basic interpreter. And Word for Windows. But everything else was an acquisitio
by Shorel 13y ago
> Kinda sad since they used to lead the game.
May be when they first made their Basic interpreter. And Word for Windows.
But everything else was an acquisition or a clone. DOS bought, Windows cloned from Xerox and Mac, Excel cloned from Lotus-123, FoxPro bought, XBOX cloned from playstation, Internet Explorer bought.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoEasy to say 'cloned' when you mean 'built'. There's a lot of differences between those products. If an entrepreneur came out with them it'd be called innovation, not cloning.
- kenjackson 13y agoAnd iPhone closed from the Palm. And the iPod cloned from the Archos Rockbox. And Linux of course cloned from Unix. And the Mac cloned from Xerox. And the iPad cloned from tablet PCs. And the PlayStation cloned from Nintendo. Nintendo cloned from Atari 2600. Atari 2600 cloned from board games. BTW, Word cloned from Word Perfect. BASIC interpreter cloned from all the previous BASIC interpreters that existed. Being first or "leading" don't matter. It's about execution and a bit of luck. Look at Android. It sure as heck wasn't first, but they executed. Windows wasn't first, but they executed.
- yaakov34 13y agoWould you like to explain how e.g. Excel is a clone of 123, but 123 is not a clone of Visicalc? I mean, everything ever done with digital computers is an extension of Charles Babbage's work on the difference engine, which was cloned from Pascal's calculator of the 1640s, maybe with a couple of enhancements here and there. See how you sound?
- gagaga 13y agoAnd the iPhone was a clone of Windows Mobile?