wasn't stolen exactly, xerox licensed it out to apple, mircosoft and anyone else that was interested. xerox's management at the time thought it was a costly dead end.
how is android stolen?
it's not. steve jobs was a seething fricking moron that stole most of his ideas from htc, nokia and many others.
even modern ios updates are copying features that have been in android for up to a decade, like always-on screen
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>android apologizers carefully handpicking examples like aod and the icon theme engine, while conveniently ignoring how android copies most new iphone changes every year like the removal of headphone jack, the notch, apple pay, camera system, even down to samsung copying the previous year's iphone down to its external design every year
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GOOD MORNING SIR > handpicking
your favourite californian pedophiles were stealing shit from everyone before android was a thing, you moronic street shitter. lmao.
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> apple pay
I wish samsung's magnetic swipe thing stuck around
It isn't, the basic ideas of a smartphone had been around for several years, they appeared when they did when the hardware advanced to the point where implementing one became feasible.
Jobs just thought he was a genius whose shit didn't stink when in fact he was just a marketing figurehead.
>Jobs just thought he was a genius whose shit didn't stink when in fact he was just a marketing figurehead.
there's a podcast of woz being interviewed by steve-o from jackass. woz cleared up the myths surrounding jobs and talked about his inability to program, didn't know how a computer functioned, didn't understand electronics and didn't want to know either.
I wish I could be so disinterested in the core product of a business, yet still idolized as a subject matter expert in said product.
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yeah. it's quite an odd situation. a lot of what most people know about moron jobs was complete fantasy vomited up by apple's marketing department and their delusional cult members. jobs did nothing to correct the record while he was alive and woz was so removed from apple doing his own shit that he didn't really talk about what he was actually like until after he died, most likely because there would be no retribution from jobs and he doesn't give a frick about what itoddlers think before or after he died.
Pic related was what Android was planned to be: small screen, no touch, physical keys only. When the iPhone was announced, they knew this crap would be dead on arrival and rushed to redesign. You could argue that the systems work quite differently, or the LG Prada did it first, but the Android team went for "iPhone-like", they really had to.
I have to wonder what would have happened if they hadn't done that. Because I was late to android, getting 2.x on a Nexus S and it was a fricking trashfire. iPhone clone? It fricking wished it was an iphone clone. It was a dismal OS that looked like someone did a lazy iOS skin over someone's buggy as shit custom linux. Now, don't get me wrong, I hated iphone as well, but at least that was a cohesive product that was just useless to me. Android was a janky pile of wank that was also useless to me.
For a long time nothing happened, because they did a total overhaul of the shitfest for android 3, which was just released to selected tablet manufacturers because it was held together with duct tape and glue.
Android 4 was when they finally got it all working well enough again that they could make it the generally available OS and this was the FIRST time in Android history that you could say it was an iphone clone, because it actually worked at least as well as an iphone.
But then subsequent releases shit it up and broke everything so often that app compatibility was pathetic. Oh well.
>I have to wonder what would have happened if they hadn't done that.
Nokia would have obliterated everyone with Maemo (an actual desktop linux running on a phone)
I don't believe he ever said such a thing, especially while dying, he probably just spent time with his family and did not give any frick about all this shit.
Android (once an OS for digital cameras) did change a lot once the iPhone was on the horizon, the employees from back then admit that they were rushing to make a competitor to the iPhone
So i do get what he is saying, but do we really want to live in a world where everything is protected by moronic super strict patents? If that was the case Apple wouldnt be there to even make the iPhone. Just suck it up and make the better product.
Maybe thats what he meant, but since he was an moronic butthole probably not
>Maybe thats what he meant, but since he was an moronic butthole probably not
they tried to patent everything they could think just to try and get competitors into never ending lawsuits. when google acquired android they quickly discovered that google was more than happy to spend millions of dollars shitting on apple and invalidating or challenging patents. when that wasn't a roaring success they turned their attention to manufacturers.
I don't understand how Linux is a stolen product.
>I don't understand how Linux is a stolen product.
- Picks up Unix's source code illegally shared
- Modify it a bit
- Call it your own OS
Not stolen.
That's BSD and the court battles destroyed it
It's a ripoff of Unix.
It's the Oreo of Hydrox.
The Great Value brand of anything.
thats rich coming from a man who stole everything from Xerox
It's common for people who do something wrong, and to then think everyone else is trying to do the same thing to them
wasn't stolen exactly, xerox licensed it out to apple, mircosoft and anyone else that was interested. xerox's management at the time thought it was a costly dead end.
it's not. steve jobs was a seething fricking moron that stole most of his ideas from htc, nokia and many others.
yeah that's what I was thinking kek all the early iOS updates were just copying android features
even modern ios updates are copying features that have been in android for up to a decade, like always-on screen
>android apologizers carefully handpicking examples like aod and the icon theme engine, while conveniently ignoring how android copies most new iphone changes every year like the removal of headphone jack, the notch, apple pay, camera system, even down to samsung copying the previous year's iphone down to its external design every year
GOOD MORNING SIR
> handpicking
your favourite californian pedophiles were stealing shit from everyone before android was a thing, you moronic street shitter. lmao.
> apple pay
I wish samsung's magnetic swipe thing stuck around
how is android stolen?
It isn't, the basic ideas of a smartphone had been around for several years, they appeared when they did when the hardware advanced to the point where implementing one became feasible.
Jobs just thought he was a genius whose shit didn't stink when in fact he was just a marketing figurehead.
>Jobs just thought he was a genius whose shit didn't stink when in fact he was just a marketing figurehead.
there's a podcast of woz being interviewed by steve-o from jackass. woz cleared up the myths surrounding jobs and talked about his inability to program, didn't know how a computer functioned, didn't understand electronics and didn't want to know either.
I wish I could be so disinterested in the core product of a business, yet still idolized as a subject matter expert in said product.
yeah. it's quite an odd situation. a lot of what most people know about moron jobs was complete fantasy vomited up by apple's marketing department and their delusional cult members. jobs did nothing to correct the record while he was alive and woz was so removed from apple doing his own shit that he didn't really talk about what he was actually like until after he died, most likely because there would be no retribution from jobs and he doesn't give a frick about what itoddlers think before or after he died.
Pic related was what Android was planned to be: small screen, no touch, physical keys only. When the iPhone was announced, they knew this crap would be dead on arrival and rushed to redesign. You could argue that the systems work quite differently, or the LG Prada did it first, but the Android team went for "iPhone-like", they really had to.
SOVL, why don't we make devices like this anymore?
I have to wonder what would have happened if they hadn't done that. Because I was late to android, getting 2.x on a Nexus S and it was a fricking trashfire. iPhone clone? It fricking wished it was an iphone clone. It was a dismal OS that looked like someone did a lazy iOS skin over someone's buggy as shit custom linux. Now, don't get me wrong, I hated iphone as well, but at least that was a cohesive product that was just useless to me. Android was a janky pile of wank that was also useless to me.
For a long time nothing happened, because they did a total overhaul of the shitfest for android 3, which was just released to selected tablet manufacturers because it was held together with duct tape and glue.
Android 4 was when they finally got it all working well enough again that they could make it the generally available OS and this was the FIRST time in Android history that you could say it was an iphone clone, because it actually worked at least as well as an iphone.
But then subsequent releases shit it up and broke everything so often that app compatibility was pathetic. Oh well.
>I have to wonder what would have happened if they hadn't done that.
Nokia would have obliterated everyone with Maemo (an actual desktop linux running on a phone)
I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.
that's why google killed him
>he was messing with glowies
They hit him with that cancer beam
I don't believe he ever said such a thing, especially while dying, he probably just spent time with his family and did not give any frick about all this shit.
>We're PC in everything but name
>nooo you can't steal my PDA idea, I thought of it first!!
to be fair they brought graphical user interfaces, mouse, etc to market before Microsoft did
Android (once an OS for digital cameras) did change a lot once the iPhone was on the horizon, the employees from back then admit that they were rushing to make a competitor to the iPhone
So i do get what he is saying, but do we really want to live in a world where everything is protected by moronic super strict patents? If that was the case Apple wouldnt be there to even make the iPhone. Just suck it up and make the better product.
Maybe thats what he meant, but since he was an moronic butthole probably not
>Maybe thats what he meant, but since he was an moronic butthole probably not
they tried to patent everything they could think just to try and get competitors into never ending lawsuits. when google acquired android they quickly discovered that google was more than happy to spend millions of dollars shitting on apple and invalidating or challenging patents. when that wasn't a roaring success they turned their attention to manufacturers.
Maybe he might've taken his hatred of Android to make iPhones better, who knows
As soon as he died apple stopped being innovative