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The document lays claim to "Java, OS and OO" as Apple innovations?

The iPhone popularized a lot of best-of-breed technologies. There were start-ups trying to do what the iPhone did. Apple is claiming those as Apple innovations. This is very similar to Apple popularizing the GUI invented at Xerox, and suing Microsoft.

If it's similar to Apple "popularizing" the GUI "invented" at Xerox then all power to Apple. Certainly, Apple took Xerox's ideas and ran with them, but the results went far beyond what Xerox had made. Microsoft simply took Apple's ideas and made a shoddy clone. See any similarity?

We -- at best -- stand on giants' shoulders. Making the facile argument that Samsung got stuff from Apple just like Apple got stuff from Xerox is skipping over very important details.

What ? Nowhere in the article did it imply that.

It meant some of the implementations of those rely on Apple innovations i.e. patents. Which given how old Apple is, all of the patent acquisitions along the way and some pretty innovative work by NeXT it isn't inconceivable.

Doesn't mean that those patents will be enforceable.

See slide #8 and the notes for slide #8.

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