On: Apple and Samsung, frenemies for life

[dba7dba]

Let's just remember Apple has cloned others' ideas. Mouse. mp3 player. keyboard on macbook pro (originally on sony laptops). FaceTime? Done Asia/Europe for a few years before Apple came out with FaceTime. The way Apple was advertising it, it seemed as if Apple had invented it...

And please, rounded corners on electronic gadgets?

Lastly, the magnetic connector on macbook laptops? Many many years ago I bought a hot water pot (japanese model) that had with magnetic power connector. It was sold many years before macbook pro came out with the magnetic connectors.

[simonh → dba7dba]

If they'd very publicly called out all the open technologies and standards they'd built on to develop it[1], would that be different?

[1] http://goo.gl/SVPYO

[ZeroGravitas → simonh]

Steve Jobs also announced that Facetime itself would soon be an open standard.

http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/facetime-open-standard-...