Somebody doesn't like competition, it seems.
~looks at iTouch and Android phone side-by-side~
They don't seem that similar. Perhaps the coding is, but outwardly, it's not like I'd look at one and go "STOLEN!" Besides, there's not exactly a lot of variation on how you can do a smartphone operating system anyhow...
I am now known as Flyboy.I much prefer Android. Among other things, because they aren't obsessively trying to sue their competitors for offering similar products.
And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?I suspect that the Palo Alto Research Center would have a few words to say on the subject of stealing interfaces...
edited 23rd Oct '11 5:45:21 AM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpIsn't Android based on the Linux kernel?
Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.Reminds me of Steve Ballmer's "I'LL KILL HIM" reaction when one of his employees switched sides.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Hah, good thing he's gone then.
I hate Apple, I don't see why there's all these documentaries coming out talking about how Steve Jobs was some kind of hero. An innovator for sure, but the media is portraying him like some kind of electronic mother theresa.
His products suck, his company sucks, and his fanboys are all hipsters. :P
Jobs didn't really steal their stuff, though he was obviously inspired. Besides, at this point PARC getting money for inventing modern computing almost seems wrong.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.^^ Fitting comparison, since Mother Teresa was also a cunt with extremely good publicity.
And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?I don't know how to respond to that, but suspect that it is a flame war-waiting-to-happen.
~goes off to read about it~
I am now known as Flyboy.And here we go again.
@Barkey OH GOD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE NOW I DONT FEEL LIKE A TOTAL ASSHAT.
I appreciate what he did, especially Pixar, but modern Apple pissed me off majorly...
And I find it sad that his 1984 commercial showed his company fighting a major conglomerate figure...only to become them.
Yeah, good attitude.
"He did something disagreeable. Glad he's dead."
You can not go to Utah again after you have eaten Utah and have not eaten.Woah, this topic is going sour fast. To try to redirect it back onto less offensive stuff, yeah, that's alright if Steve Jobs wanted to "go to war" if you will with Android. Android is owned by Google, iPhone by Apple, and the two are reaching the stage where they're beginning to battle for dominance, like Coke and Pepsi.
Though this comparison is less apt because there's plenty which one does which the other doesn't. Google owns much more of a stake in the internet than Apple, with the likes of Google+ and Youtube, while Apple owns more hardware-based things (more kinds of computers, iPad(?), iPod).
(Sidebar, there is significant evidence that Mother Theresa wasn't as good as people interpret her to be, but that's for another topic)
re:Yej:
Yes, Android is a Linux-based system, and like Linux, it is open source. That's why there is also Fedora and Ubuntu. You and I could even make our own distributions of Linux if we had knowledge in OS-level programming. All we need to do is give it a licence (like GNU or Creative Commons) and we'd be ready to rock.
Get Droids people; they're cool as fuck.
They're also useful.
The only thing I have to say to this is: lol wut.
I don't use either.
Stupid smartphones...
I misread the title as "Steve Jobs was willing to 'go thermonuclear war' to 'destroy' Asteroid" and had an incredibly awesome daydream. I'd watch a movie about that.
More seriously, I'm not really surprised.
WAT.
edited 25th Oct '11 8:27:02 AM by Pentadragon
"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ," etc., but that's off-topic.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.she had a bit of a thing for finding the suffering of the poor beautiful instead of trying to eliminate poverty.
Obviously, Android = Cancer and "go thermonuclear war" = "get chemotherapy"
"That said, as I've mentioned before, apart from the helmet, he's not exactly bad looking, if a bit...blood-drenched." - juancarlosWell at least we look good in our Hipster glasses, useless scarves, and tight brown jeans, right? Right?
*sniff*
edited 25th Oct '11 12:03:06 PM by Newfable
Dude, nobody ever looked good on brown jeans. Jeans are supposed to be either black or blue.
edited 25th Oct '11 11:56:39 AM by SavageHeathen
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.Well there's no context to the "thermonuclear war" comment though. Like, what methods comprise the set of actions allowed in "thermonuclear war"? If he's going to try to outcompete through awesomeness of product, that's perfectly normal. If he wanted to sue Google to oblivion, that's not cool.
Linky
Hyperbole aside, I'm not sure what to think of this, though I am remionded of Apple v. Microsoft, where, to me, it seems like Apple tried to gain all rights to GU Is
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