Originally Posted by
anonymouse 
Where, by "swallowed their pride" you mean "allowed Google, et al. to completely rip them off". I suggest if your home is ever robbed, or your car stolen, you just "swallow your pride" and don't bother filing a police report.
May I modify that analogy, since nothing is being physically stolen?
My mother, when she bought the house in which she currently lives, set out a garden plan for it. The house itself (full two story, about 100 years old now) had just been moved, as a whole, all the way across town on a semi (traffic stopped on the main thoroughfares, power lines taken down, the whole nine yards) and was sitting on a bare plot of grass. She laid out string in the grass where she wanted the border of the garden and my father spraypainted over that line. They then got a variety of bushes, trees, and flowers and they went to town.
Now, everyone (literally) else in the city had their landscaping right up against their houses in the two or so feet of land around the foundation (the bare square that all houses will have), with only ever trees in their yards further out. My mother's plan was far more organic, curving all around the house in flowing shapes, also with trees.
When our landscaping was finished, my mother began to notice dozens of other people in town driving by, stopping, and taking pictures of our house. She was put off and worried by that until she asked one of them what they were doing.
They wanted her plans. Now every house in the city has landscaping like ours.
We also have the oldest backyard fence in the city. And now you see fences everywhere. I wouldn't mention that at all since 'putting up a fence' isn't usually something you'd consider 'unique', but the council actively protested us doing it (it's a beautiful wooden fence, not some gaudy metal trash), and everyone else in town, for decades, apparently didn't have the stones to go up against them to protect their children. But once they let us do it, boy howdy.
Now, the validity of the analogy ends here, as my mother didn't expect, want, or receive compensation for her landscaping plans being photocopied, but everyone knows on whose plans theirs are based.
She also wasn't the first to have landscaping around the house, but ask anyone, and they'll tell you she was the first to do it right.
Originally Posted by
rednival
My only point is that Watson came before Siri, and no one wants to address that because they have no rebuttal.
That's only because it doesn't have anything to do with it.
