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As for product pages, I sadly don't have paper trail

Good, I would hate for you to waste effort on something few but yourself care about. Because I doubt you'd find many that would agree that Google is really ripping off "The Dash" because they were "first!!11".

As much as it will pain some to admit, Google is ripping off Apple, not some Kickstarter project no one has heard about.

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There were many wireless earbuds around the time Apple came out with the AirPods so you're really not selling your point here. Just because a company wants to get into that market now doesn't automatically make it derivative from Apple. The Dash was very popular, people have heard about it. Samsung Gear IconX earbuds were also popular and out before AirPods. Should we say that Apple is derivative of Samsung because they came to the market first? By your logic, yes we should.

None of my friends outside tech circles have heard of "The Dash". They all know and most of them bought or want AirPods. An estimated 60 million AirPods were sold in 2019, nobody else in the category comes close.

I understand, but it’s reasonable to think that engineers might copy the work of other engineers, even if that work didn’t find commercial success.

Why not agree that both Apple and Google we’re inspired by the Dash?

If this were academia, they would probably be required to site them as a source.

Ok so if I understand you correctly... if I copy something people haven't heard of I'm an innovator and everyone that follows is a fraud.

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