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Jobs Claims Microsoft Is Shamelessly Copying

Posted by Zonk on from the nah-nah dept.

Nicholas Roussos writes "Steve Jobs was outspoken at a recent annual shareholder meeting. He claimed 'They are shamelessly copying us', referring to Microsoft. Of course, Microsoft has done its share of pointing fingers as well." From the article: "Most telling, Jobs said is that Tiger, the next version of Mac OS X, will go on sale later this month, while Longhorn is still more than a year away."

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  1. Even MORE telling by DoorFrame · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Even more telling is that Windows XP went on sale three years ago, while the next version of Mac OS X, Tiger, will not go on sale until later this year.

    The arguement that their next Operating System update is coming out first, is not relevent as to who is copying what from who. They've both had dozens of OSes released in the last twenty years, so the release schedule of the next few seems completely beside the point.

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  2. Re:didn't apple steal... by beernuts · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ugh. Does everyone still belive that steaming load? No. Apple didn't steal the interface from Xerox. The actually gave Xerox millions of dollars of Apple stock to bring programmers through so they could get a look at what Xerox was doing. Xerox agreed to this. And why wouldn't they? PARC was in the idea game. They didn't make commercial products. Really. Go look it up. Wiki and Google are your buddies. I promise. Go now. Check for yourself.

    Don't get angry, just get informed.

    FYI - This was written from a PC, before you go and flag me as a fanboi...

  3. Re:This has popped up before by marktwen0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Parent is funny! Maybe a mod up?

  4. Re:Who's copying whom by danila · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dashboard is a stupid technology, it doesn't scale. You have to preselect the widgets that you need and that is idiotic. Another idiotic thing is that Dashboard combines both interactive widgets (translation, calculator, etc.) and passive information output widgets (weather, time, CPU utilization, etc.). This means that I have to clutter my desktop with useless shit (interactive widgets). It would make much more sense to simply run an application (using one of the million existing ways to start it) when I need it. To start a calculator I can already do Start+R, calc, Enter. No reason to place it on the desktop using Dashboard.

    And this is what these companies call innovation? Utter incompetence in action.

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