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It’s even more ridiculous when choosing to do it Apple. It’s hard to think of a company with more legal resources and which is more protective of its hardware I

by generj 2mo ago

It’s even more ridiculous when choosing to do it Apple. It’s hard to think of a company with more legal resources and which is more protective of its hardware IP.

kridsdale1 2mo ago
And vindictiveness. Steve declared thermonuclear war on Google because Android re-skinned to use BUTTONS.
- formerly_proven 2mo ago
  > Steve declared thermonuclear war on Google because Android re-skinned to use BUTTONS. Was there ever a point in time where Google was not the default search engine on iOS?
  - Cyberdog 2mo ago
    Yes, briefly: https://qz.com/apple-google-yahoo-search-engine-safari-antitrust-trial-1851458765 https://qz.com/apple-google-yahoo-search-engine-safari-antit...
- woadwarrior01 2mo ago
  > because Android re-skinned to use BUTTONS. No. Steve's rage was justified, IMO. It was because Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board while simultaneously being Google's CEO and Google was surreptitiously building Android at the time. Mother of all conflict of interests. There was a recent story that reminded me of it. Mike Krieger was on Figma's board and Anthropic's CPO, while Anthropic was surreptitiously building Claude Design.
  - Chu4eeno 2mo ago
    It wasn't very surreptitiously, Google very loudly bought Android Inc. for 50 million in 2005, two years before Apple ripped of the phone that won the iF Design Award in 2006, the LG Prada.
    - woadwarrior01 2mo ago
      > Apple ripped of the phone that won the iF Design Award in 2006, the LG Prada. Nice, albeit implausible story. Apple had been working on multi touch screens for a long time before that. They applied for a patent on it from 2004[1]. And TBF, neither Apple nor LG invented capacitive touch screens. Multiple discovery is a thing. [1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7663607B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US7663607B2/en
    - foooorsyth 2mo ago
      Android’s original offering was nothing like modern phones. They didn’t have multi touch and they expected physical keyboards. Android added multi-touch in 2.0 Eclair in 2009 as a clear response to iPhone’s popularity
pezezin 2mo ago
Nintendo?
ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Disney comes to mind… If I remember, there was a former Apple employee, who was quite influential with The House of Mouse…
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by generj 2mo ago

It’s even more ridiculous when choosing to do it Apple. It’s hard to think of a company with more legal resources and which is more protective of its hardware IP.

kridsdale1 2mo ago

And vindictiveness. Steve declared thermonuclear war on Google because Android re-skinned to use BUTTONS.

formerly_proven 2mo ago
> Steve declared thermonuclear war on Google because Android re-skinned to use BUTTONS. Was there ever a point in time where Google was not the default search engine on iOS?
- Cyberdog 2mo ago
  Yes, briefly: https://qz.com/apple-google-yahoo-search-engine-safari-antitrust-trial-1851458765 https://qz.com/apple-google-yahoo-search-engine-safari-antit...
woadwarrior01 2mo ago
> because Android re-skinned to use BUTTONS. No. Steve's rage was justified, IMO. It was because Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board while simultaneously being Google's CEO and Google was surreptitiously building Android at the time. Mother of all conflict of interests. There was a recent story that reminded me of it. Mike Krieger was on Figma's board and Anthropic's CPO, while Anthropic was surreptitiously building Claude Design.
- Chu4eeno 2mo ago
  It wasn't very surreptitiously, Google very loudly bought Android Inc. for 50 million in 2005, two years before Apple ripped of the phone that won the iF Design Award in 2006, the LG Prada.
  - woadwarrior01 2mo ago
    > Apple ripped of the phone that won the iF Design Award in 2006, the LG Prada. Nice, albeit implausible story. Apple had been working on multi touch screens for a long time before that. They applied for a patent on it from 2004[1]. And TBF, neither Apple nor LG invented capacitive touch screens. Multiple discovery is a thing. [1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7663607B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US7663607B2/en
  - foooorsyth 2mo ago
    Android’s original offering was nothing like modern phones. They didn’t have multi touch and they expected physical keyboards. Android added multi-touch in 2.0 Eclair in 2009 as a clear response to iPhone’s popularity

pezezin 2mo ago

Nintendo?

ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago

Disney comes to mind… If I remember, there was a former Apple employee, who was quite influential with The House of Mouse…

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