7th October 2011, 5:29 PM
Weltall Wrote:Repackaging other people's inventions is innovative?When Apple came out with the IPhone, it wasn't a repackaged invention, there was nothing like it on the market. It set a completely new standard for smart phones, and also there's the other innovations I talked about in the Mac operating system like the doc, extension folders (called suitcases on the mac), the finder, plus a hole slew of awesome things you can only get on a mac.. Steve Jobs may have stole the concept of a Gooie from xerox, but at the same time he completely reinvented the concept and made it his own. Apple took a xerox gooie that only ran on copiers, and completely re-imagined it into the modern gooie OS's we see today. Xerox may have come up with the idea, but we wouldn't have what we have today, with out Steve Jobs to flip it on its end, and make it usable.