Comments

• Michael

  2011-09-10 23:48:50

  "Without choice, the monopoly or duopoly of Microsoft and Apple is under no pressure to actually innovate."
  
  Apple is considered one of the most innovative companies of the last 20 years.
  
  Your FUD does not match the facts.

• twitter

  2011-09-11 16:27:29

  Can you name a single innovation that Apple made rather than borrowed from another company and popularized while excluding competitors with lawsuits?

• Michael

  2011-09-11 17:10:16

  You mean other than completely turning around the following markets: desktop computing, music players, smart phones, tablets, music industry, handset maker's relation to phone carriers, etc.?
  
  Or are you just blindly discounting those?

• twitter

  2011-09-11 17:18:28

  I did not think you could name a single technical feature.

• Agent_Smith

  2011-09-12 18:59:07

  Yeah, right: GUI - Xerox, The tablet ??? - Stanley Kubrick's 2001. iPhone ? - Samsung's F700. Safari ? - KDE Konqueror KHTML. And, of course, their CEO's statement: "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. ..." So, it's crystal clear who's not the innovator here.

• Michael

  2011-09-12 20:14:33

  Thank you both for proving my point. While people who understand the tech industry could talk intelligently about how Apple affected those markets, you two have just shown you cannot.
  
  Oh, and with the comment from Jobs, Roy took that completely out of context. See here for details: http://techrights.org/2011/09/08/apple-imports-at-risk/

• Michael

  2011-09-12 20:15:13

  Whoops. See here: http://trw.gallopinginsanity.com/2011/09/08/apple

• twitter

  2011-09-13 00:16:19

  I'm still waiting for you to name a single feature Apple came up with.

• Michael

  2011-09-13 00:32:32

  Well, there is no doubt that Macs can be a bit expensive, but if you save up you should not have to wait long. Get a Mac and you will not have to wait for those features.
  
  Or you can use Linux and hope they someday make it there.
  
  OK... being a bit silly there - my point is you cannot think of any of these Apple innovations... where people who know the tech industry can. Easily. Here, if you really need help and are not just trolling:
  
  http://tinyurl.com/6dvblk5
  
  Really... it is not like this is hard to find information on this if you *really* do not know of it. And welcome to the tech industry.

• twitter

  2011-09-13 03:25:30

  Like I said, you can't name one.

• Michael

  2011-09-13 03:32:06

  Gee, I noted that Roy and his minion cannot... and you work to "prove me wrong" by noting I am not helping you.
  
  Keep in mind: *anyone* familiar with the tech industry can. The fact you, twitter, cannot shows you are not familiar with the tech industry.
  
  For the record: I can and have in public forums. Are you telling me you are the same but are just not willing to now?

• Agent_Smith

  2011-09-13 01:02:08

  Oh, yeah, right, The Apple Gazette citing Apple innovations... Much like Seattle Digest praising Micro$haft... Good for laughs. \(^-^)/

• Michael

  2011-09-13 01:37:59

  Who said anything about the Gazette? Pick from many, many sources.
  
  The fact is that people who are familiar with the tech industry are familiar with the innovations Apple has brought to the public. It is, in fact, a decent test to see if people are familiar with the the tech industry, given how many areas Apple has been influential in.
  
  But it seems Roy and his fans are not able to show such understanding. It is interesting and quite telling. There is such a strong anti-MS and anti-Apple bias on this site that common knowledge is just ignored or denied - with *nothing* to back up the denials. Nothing.
  
  I am not saying this shows this site is tried to a cult, but it is very cult-like in that way.