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Originally Posted by calingasan
I'm guessing that the reason a lot of "fanbois" as you call them, are frustrated with new technologies is that because apple thought of it first. Even if the Pre is better than the iphone or that windows mobile 7 has more functionality... its just darn annoying to see an original product get copied. I'm not saying that all the other product that resembles an iphone is a complete rip off of the iphone, its just that the similarities exist and these similarities makes "fanbois" wonder why other companies make new and original products.
To my opinion anyway, i think that similarities and the stealing of ideas gives way to better products. Its not ethical but as a consumer in a big market, the likes of "microsoft" or "palm" or any other company accused of stealing ideas sets the standard of the technology we have now a nudge higher. As a fanboi, this only means that apple will continue innovate and compete with the likes of palm, htc, microsoft, etc giving us better and better products.
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Apple didn't invent the wide screen telephone dude, or the touch screen, they're just the ones that brought it to the mainstream in North America. I'm pretty sure they didn't invent MMS, SMS, email on phone, web browsing on the phone ( see Opera ), taking pictures on the phone, etc...
All they did was put a bunch of features together on a custom shell running on top of stripped down Linux OS ( let's be honest, this isn't no MacOS) and in the body of a souped up iPod and that's it.
The only "innovation" they made is their UI, which some consider revolutionary, although having a desktop with a bunch of icons doesn't seem that crazy to me
Oh and their competitors do need to copy them up to a certain point, otherwise they wouldn't be competitive.
Have fun when Apple adds all the features the Pre has into a iPhone 3.0, just to get some more cash from the herd.