I've always felt that Steve knew something that couldn't be proved in a courtroom. Maybe something between him and Rubin in the 90s or something between him and Schmidt later on.
Hard to say.
Probably Schmidt was aware of the iPhone project and Google made the decision to purchase Android based on that. The story Google tells about Larry Page purchasing Android without Schmidt's knowledge sounds like they're trying to cover their ass.
Simple. Xerox was actually compensated for the technology with Apple stock way back before they went public...stock that now would be worth a zillion dollars. Xerox still thought that they had been duped and finally filed suit in the late 80s....only to have to motion thrown out of court.
Google management has access to Apple secrets for a time and ended up making an iPhone clone that first tiptoed around the concept of using Apple patents (like multitouch) before finally saying "just screw it, they probably won't sue us!"
Ok thanks.
And the same with the Apple name itself vs The Beatle's Apple recording label too- right? Apple compensated them too I believe.
And Steve was right of course. Everyone else was chasing miniaturised QWERTY keyboards and/or resistive mono-touch displays until the iPhone came out.
Google bought android because they knew if Apple gained market share then they would lose their death grip on mobile search. Having sat on the board of directors throughout the original iPhone development Google was privy to specific information about Apple?s business model.
It?s not as if this isn?t a recurring theme in the technology industry. Where would we be if Steve didn?t appropriate the GUI he saw demoed when he visited Xerox?
It?s far too late to put the android genie back in the bottle. I am of the opinion that iOS will be better for having it around.
In other thermonuclear-war-related-news can we start petitioning introversion software to port Defcon to iOS already?
No, because Picasso was referring to trying something new that wouldn't make him a copy artist of Michelangelo.
He said he could draw a Michelangelo and no one would ever be impressed, but if he could steal an idea and bring it to life and create his own style then he would always be remembered.
There are plenty of great ideas out there, just waiting to be taken and brought to reality.
Right now, they're just ideas.
Apple has a ton of ideas and they bring them to life. Google stealing these ideas implies shamelessly knowing Apple is researching and patenting these ideas and if Google can bring it to market first people will be none the wiser.
Therefore, Jobs vowed to become even more secretive, while bringing the full weight of that war chest to bare on the future of computing.
It?s not as if this isn?t a recurring theme in the technology industry. Where would we be if Steve didn?t appropriate the GUI he saw demoed when he visited Xerox?
Slightly different. If I recall, Xerox willfully shared their research with Apple in exchange for stock, likely because they figured Apple could market it better. But you're right in that it does happen, as Apple invited Microsoft in during development of the Macintosh (or was it Lisa?) based on Xerox's research, so they could have Office ready, but then went and used what they learned to make Windows.
Probably Schmidt was aware of the iPhone project and Google made the decision to purchase Android based on that. The story Google tells about Larry Page purchasing Android without Schmidt's knowledge sounds like they're trying to cover their ass.
That's the exact legal advise given for Page to do. If they admitted to being informed they would be screwed.
Not surprisingly Schmidt is now Chairman and Page is now the CEO.
No, because Picasso was referring to trying something new that wouldn't make him a copy artist of Michelangelo.
He said he could draw a Michelangelo and no one would ever be impressed, but if he could steal an idea and bring it to life and create his own style then he would always be remembered.
There are plenty of great ideas out there, just waiting to be taken and brought to reality.
Right now, they're just ideas.
Apple has a ton of ideas and they bring them to life. Google stealing these ideas implies shamelessly knowing Apple is researching and patenting these ideas and if Google can bring it to market first people will be none the wiser.
Therefore, Jobs vowed to become even more secretive, while bringing the full weight of that war chest to bare on the future of computing.
Well Andy Warhol stole left and right and is considered the modern artist genius.
Kick her in the guts harry. I mean kick that bitch. Maybe she will back down and stop. A quote by Steve. Apple in 15 years, will they remember steve then like they do now?
The book says that, while some Apple board members were happy that Hewlett-Packard gave up trying to compete with Apple's iPad, Jobs did not think it was cause for celebration.
"Hewlett and Packard built a great company, and they thought they had left it in good hands," Jobs told Isaacson. "But now it's being dismembered and destroyed."
"I hope I've left a stronger legacy so that will never happen at Apple," he added.
No, because Picasso was referring to trying something new that wouldn't make him a copy artist of Michelangelo.
He said he could draw a Michelangelo and no one would ever be impressed, but if he could steal an idea and bring it to life and create his own style then he would always be remembered.
There are plenty of great ideas out there, just waiting to be taken and brought to reality.
Right now, they're just ideas.
Apple has a ton of ideas and they bring them to life. Google stealing these ideas implies shamelessly knowing Apple is researching and patenting these ideas and if Google can bring it to market first people will be none the wiser.
Therefore, Jobs vowed to become even more secretive, while bringing the full weight of that war chest to bare on the future of computing.
I always thought that quote should be attributed to TS Eliot, from “Philip Massinger,” The Sacred Wood.
"One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."
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"To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!"
Post of the year.
I've always felt that Steve knew something that couldn't be proved in a courtroom. Maybe something between him and Rubin in the 90s or something between him and Schmidt later on.
Hard to say.
Probably Schmidt was aware of the iPhone project and Google made the decision to purchase Android based on that. The story Google tells about Larry Page purchasing Android without Schmidt's knowledge sounds like they're trying to cover their ass.
Simple. Xerox was actually compensated for the technology with Apple stock way back before they went public...stock that now would be worth a zillion dollars. Xerox still thought that they had been duped and finally filed suit in the late 80s....only to have to motion thrown out of court.
Google management has access to Apple secrets for a time and ended up making an iPhone clone that first tiptoed around the concept of using Apple patents (like multitouch) before finally saying "just screw it, they probably won't sue us!"
Ok thanks.
And the same with the Apple name itself vs The Beatle's Apple recording label too- right? Apple compensated them too I believe.
And Steve was right of course. Everyone else was chasing miniaturised QWERTY keyboards and/or resistive mono-touch displays until the iPhone came out.
Google bought android because they knew if Apple gained market share then they would lose their death grip on mobile search. Having sat on the board of directors throughout the original iPhone development Google was privy to specific information about Apple?s business model.
It?s not as if this isn?t a recurring theme in the technology industry. Where would we be if Steve didn?t appropriate the GUI he saw demoed when he visited Xerox?
It?s far too late to put the android genie back in the bottle. I am of the opinion that iOS will be better for having it around.
In other thermonuclear-war-related-news can we start petitioning introversion software to port Defcon to iOS already?
Because like maybe he agreed with it?
No, because Picasso was referring to trying something new that wouldn't make him a copy artist of Michelangelo.
He said he could draw a Michelangelo and no one would ever be impressed, but if he could steal an idea and bring it to life and create his own style then he would always be remembered.
There are plenty of great ideas out there, just waiting to be taken and brought to reality.
Right now, they're just ideas.
Apple has a ton of ideas and they bring them to life. Google stealing these ideas implies shamelessly knowing Apple is researching and patenting these ideas and if Google can bring it to market first people will be none the wiser.
Therefore, Jobs vowed to become even more secretive, while bringing the full weight of that war chest to bare on the future of computing.
Good lord- it never ends.
It?s not as if this isn?t a recurring theme in the technology industry. Where would we be if Steve didn?t appropriate the GUI he saw demoed when he visited Xerox?
Slightly different. If I recall, Xerox willfully shared their research with Apple in exchange for stock, likely because they figured Apple could market it better. But you're right in that it does happen, as Apple invited Microsoft in during development of the Macintosh (or was it Lisa?) based on Xerox's research, so they could have Office ready, but then went and used what they learned to make Windows.
Probably Schmidt was aware of the iPhone project and Google made the decision to purchase Android based on that. The story Google tells about Larry Page purchasing Android without Schmidt's knowledge sounds like they're trying to cover their ass.
That's the exact legal advise given for Page to do. If they admitted to being informed they would be screwed.
Not surprisingly Schmidt is now Chairman and Page is now the CEO.
No, because Picasso was referring to trying something new that wouldn't make him a copy artist of Michelangelo.
He said he could draw a Michelangelo and no one would ever be impressed, but if he could steal an idea and bring it to life and create his own style then he would always be remembered.
There are plenty of great ideas out there, just waiting to be taken and brought to reality.
Right now, they're just ideas.
Apple has a ton of ideas and they bring them to life. Google stealing these ideas implies shamelessly knowing Apple is researching and patenting these ideas and if Google can bring it to market first people will be none the wiser.
Therefore, Jobs vowed to become even more secretive, while bringing the full weight of that war chest to bare on the future of computing.
Well Andy Warhol stole left and right and is considered the modern artist genius.
Campbell's tomato soup anyone?
Well Andy Warhol stole left and right and is considered the modern artist genius.
Campbell's tomato soup anyone?
What a ridiculously ignorant comment.
What a ridiculously ignorant comment.
No, yours is either simply uneducated or naive, or both.
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/...021-1mbaq.html
The book says that, while some Apple board members were happy that Hewlett-Packard gave up trying to compete with Apple's iPad, Jobs did not think it was cause for celebration.
"Hewlett and Packard built a great company, and they thought they had left it in good hands," Jobs told Isaacson. "But now it's being dismembered and destroyed."
"I hope I've left a stronger legacy so that will never happen at Apple," he added.
No, yours is either simply uneducated or naive ,or both.
Hardly. You should read a little before you comment on a subject that you know nothing about.
Well Andy Warhol stole left and right and is considered the modern artist genius.
Campbell's tomato soup anyone?
Your opinion about Art make you look like ignorance. Not that I'm a fan of Andy Warhol just saying...
Oh... and by the way... you're not even close...
You COULDN'T be bothered to answer an honest question, humbly asked, but you have no problem coming back just to make the guy feel bad. Classy.
Some people are island hermits for good reason.
No, because Picasso was referring to trying something new that wouldn't make him a copy artist of Michelangelo.
He said he could draw a Michelangelo and no one would ever be impressed, but if he could steal an idea and bring it to life and create his own style then he would always be remembered.
There are plenty of great ideas out there, just waiting to be taken and brought to reality.
Right now, they're just ideas.
Apple has a ton of ideas and they bring them to life. Google stealing these ideas implies shamelessly knowing Apple is researching and patenting these ideas and if Google can bring it to market first people will be none the wiser.
Therefore, Jobs vowed to become even more secretive, while bringing the full weight of that war chest to bare on the future of computing.
I always thought that quote should be attributed to TS Eliot, from “Philip Massinger,” The Sacred Wood. Source
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