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The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from (lemm.ee)
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/5636484

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[+] -25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

The iPhone was a novel concept as a whole. I think that’s undeniable. There was nothing like it at the time.

edit: found the iPhone haters and their revisionist history. The iPhone changed everything. When it was announced, nothing like it existed. Before the iPhone, google was working on a blackberry clone, for instance.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    There were a bunch of products that had elements of the iPhone in them, but the iPhone was the first to bring a lot of them together into a technology that made the world shit it's pants.

    The problem for Apple is, you cannot really patent nor copyright bringing together existing elements like that. Hence they had to rely on stupid sounding lawsuits on the tiniest things they actually had the patents for.

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