Steve Jobs, hes no Edison

[Grieve]

When they rip off Xerox's GUI/Mouse interface and make it more marketable they are marketing geniuses, when Microsoft does the same to them they are cursed as thieves - despite the fact that by apples own "I made it popular so it is mine" logic they were beat at their own game since their sad little OS never came remotely close to taking a dangerous market share from microsoft.

Xerox really didn't have anything, and weren't going to do anything with what they had. Apart from using a mouse and icons, the Mac was a million light years away from what Xerox did. Whereas Microsoft just copied exactly what Apple had done. But like I said, in neither case was it "stealing", because in both cases the technology was paid for. You're calling Microsoft thieves, I'm not.

Nothing solid has been found in Apple's defense yet, even this injunction will bite them in the ass if they end up losing and the case gets thrown out and under german law apple has to pay them damages..

They have injunctions against Samsung in multiple countries that prevent them from selling their tablet, not just Germany.

Also, amusing how when google copies a feature it is outright theft, when iOS adds the notification feature that android had since launch it is innovation.

Can't say I've seen the Google version to compare. But the difference is, notifications is one simple feature...basically an App. That's hardly the same as ripping off the entire look and feel of the phone.

I give Microsoft props - they (for once) innovated bigtime with Windows Phone 7.5 and the upcoming Windows 8, rather than copying Apple.

500 bucks says you are wrong, right now.

Ha! You're on, my overconfident young pseudo-German friend!

Just as long as you don't pay me using that monopoly money you Euro-types use...the way things are going, it won't be worth much soon. Dollars only, please. Or, even better, pounds - god save the queen!

This will, of course, be predicated that we adequately define the phrases "start of next year" and "Bigtime".

Easy enough - we'll let my completely impartial friend Tim decide if the term "bigtime" applies or not - I'll let you know what he says. And "start of next year" means when we get the market share numbers for the current quarter or December.

Here's the most recent data I've seen:

http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/05/android-io...re-in-u-s/

Apple at 27.3%, and Android at 43.7%.

That's a 16.4% difference. How about we say I win if Apple narrows that gap to 12% or less? That should be a safe bet for you, since you believe Android will keep on growing unabated, and a year earlier it was 24% iPhone vs 15% Android. In a year iPhone grew share by just 3%, while Android rose 28.7%! So Apple couldn't possibly reverse that by the end of the year, right?

Seriously, his rants from his biography show him for the egotistical megalomaniac that he was. I mean, I have a reputation as an egotistical cocksucker in broker biz, but my hats off to this guy.

He could be a major dick, no doubt, but he probably wouldn't have been so successful otherwise. Are you reading the bio, or just reading the quotes? I plan to pick it up when I have time.

And because I like to think the spirit of Steve lives on in me, I'd just like to say... Du hast doch nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank! Deine Zähne sind wie die Sterne so gelb und so weit auseinander!! Geh nen Bullen melken!!!