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In article <SBB.91May4133625@laplace.eng.sun.com> sbb@laplace.eng.sun.com (Steve Byrne) writes:
| They've used the legal system as a huge club to beat the competitors into
| submission, instead of putting any significant effort into real innovation (go
| ahead, try to name something that the Mac has that wasn't done by someone
| earlier, like PARC).  They're too much in love with their grossly inflated
| margins on their products to let anything threaten them, and those grossly
| inflated margins help fund the Apple's pack of legal wolves.
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Well, how many things can you name about any other micro product that
weren't done by someone else earlier?  I would say that Apple has done
better than most at getting innovations into common use.  Certainly they
did an excellent job of turning the PARC desktop innovations into a
smooth, integrated product.  I think the idea of the resource fork/data
fork division of files is reasonably novel.  I think the organization of
the operating system interface is reasonably innovative.  Innovation is
a tricky word -- turning a concept into a product deserves a lot more
credit than you seem to be willing to give it.  Just where do you see
innovation in companies other than Apple, who presumably are operating
on a business model you find preferable?
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