What Has Apple invented?

[HotRoderX]

I been trying to think of something Apple has invited? This Samsung lawsuit has got me thinking has Apple really ever invited anything. The major products I can think of they either stole our they bought the company who did invent it.

Here are just a few of the major things Apple is listed as creating


Iphone - Smartphone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IPod - Kane Kramer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mac - IBM Personal Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

even Steve Jobs admitted they steal idea's - Steve Jobs: Good artists copy great artists steal - YouTube

Maybe its just me but seems Apple has to be one of the dirtiest company's in the history of America.

I will give them this thought they are wonderful at hiding the truth that's for sure.

Can anyone think of anything thing Apple really invited?

 

[Hrethgir]

Patent trolling? Nah, that's been around, Apple is just better at marketing it, just like everything they sell.

 

[HotRoderX]

Patent trolling? Nah, that's been around, Apple is just better at marketing it, just like everything they sell.

Thats the only thing me and my buddy can come up with is there marketing. Seems every time we think of something Apple is popular for a 10sec google search shows it was invited by someone else.

 

[ari-free]

They invented some really shiny icons.

 

[jerofld]

If you figure it out, you can win a pretty nice gaming mouse:

Has Apple Really Ever Invented Anything? | Tek Syndicate

 

[HotRoderX]

If you figure it out, you can win a pretty nice gaming mouse:

Has Apple Really Ever Invented Anything? | Tek Syndicate

Thats funny I had no idea that even existed someone won it to. I wonder what apple designed and thought up them selfs.

 

[KENNECTED]

Who cares? Rehashing the same old, same old, isn't going to help the situation right now.

 

[jefboyardee]

As I recall, early Macs had a sound file named Sosumi, aka So Sue Me.

edit: googled it:

Sosumi

Sosumi is one of the system sounds introduced in Apple Inc.'s Macintosh System 7 operating system in 1991, an extremely short sample of a xylophone, which gained notoriety in computer folklore as a cheeky response to a long-running Apple Corps v. Apple Computer trademark conflict. The sound has been included in all subsequent versions of Mac OS, including Mac OS X.
During the development of System 7, the two Apples concluded a settlement agreement from an earlier dispute when Apple added a sound synthesis chip to its IIgs machine. As a result, Apple Computer was prohibited from using their trademark on "creative works whose principal content is music".
When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed through Apple's legal department and they objected that the new system sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical", under the recent settlement. The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that would not pass legal's approval, he remarked "so sue me". After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"), telling the legal department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music.[1]
Sosumi exists as an inside joke on Apple Inc.'s website as the name of a CSS typographical style used for legal notices such as the copyright notice:


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[MacFett]

The single button mouse?

 

[pbf98]

The single button mouse?

Nope, that goes to: Douglas Engelbart, apple just obtained a license to it

 

[NYCHitman1]

Who cares? Rehashing the same old, same old, isn't going to help the situation right now.

I actually am semi-curious as to what they have created themselves, obtained via purchase of smaller company, or are using via licensing.

 

[dan330]

very interesting...

 

[Joelgp83]

Well, they DID create a fanbase for themselves....but somehow I don't think that counts.

 

[zuben el genub]

Really good marketing. Think they have better marketing than devices in some cases.

They pulled those stupid "Genius Ads"

Apple VS PC were really good. Wouldn't make me want the product, but it was clever.

Didn't Apple sort of do Plug and Play? I remember with 98SE it was Plug and Pray.

 

[Zx5]

"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." -- Steve Jobs 1994

Steve Jobs: Good artists copy great artists steal - YouTube

 

[MacFett]

Firewire.

 

[ajdroidx]

Thunderbolt
Display port
But I think they had intel's backing

 

[MacFett]

Thunderbolt
Display port
But I think they had intel's backing

Thunderbolt was developed by Intel and brought to market with technical collaboration from Apple.

Close

 

[dan330]

Reality distortion field

 

[TJGoSurf]

Seems like everything Apple actually invents never catches on because they refuse to license it.

Would you guys like this new MacBook Pro? Come on, quit laughing because its a more expensive MacBook Air.