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Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera?

Posted by timothy on from the danged-neat-even-if-coincidence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While Samsung has been accused of repeatedly borrowing everything from Apple's hardware, to packaging and accessories, it appears that all current iDevices share a port which is very similar to one found on a forty-year-old Polaroid camera. It gets more interesting when you realize that camera was the 'supreme achievement' of a man Steve Jobs idolized. Edwin Land was the creator of the Polaroid camera and, if Steve Jobs obsessed over Land's devices the way many do with iPhones, etc. today, there's a chance this similarity is not a coincidence."

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  1. RIP Steve Jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    He's pushin' up the daises. Get over it you FruitFags.

    1. Re:RIP Steve Jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      yeah. pretend you knew him. then it will feel almost real.

      fucking phony-ass douche. difference between you and Jobs' family and real friends, is when they feel his loss they're not lying sacks of sycophantic shit.

      "but I read about him in business magazines and Slashdot frontpage stories, that's exactly like knowing him!!" just shut the fuck up. seriously. let the deceased have more dignity than that.

    2. Re:RIP Steve Jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Fucken Apple Haters. Fucken Apple Fan Boys. You're all as fucked as each other.