{"id":16259,"date":"2012-07-30T00:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T04:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16259"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:34:10","slug":"qotd-playing-the-last-post-over-the-notion-of-apples-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/qotd-playing-the-last-post-over-the-notion-of-apples-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Playing &#8220;The Last Post&#8221; over the notion of Apple&#8217;s innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This isn\u2019t speculation &mdash; an Apple employee copied Sony\u2019s design, circulated it to his bosses, and <em>testified to these facts in court<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>From now on, when anyone heaps phrase on Apple\u2019s design excellence and superlative innovation, just point and laugh. Some of us have been saying for years that what Apple is really good at is ripping off other peoples\u2019 ideas and stealing the credit for them with slick marketing. This, right here, is the proof.<\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond, <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Smartphone Wars: The iPhone Design Was Inspired by Sony&#8221;, <em>Armed and Dangerous<\/em><\/a>, 2012-07-29<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t speculation &mdash; an Apple employee copied Sony\u2019s design, circulated it to his bosses, and testified to these facts in court. From now on, when anyone heaps phrase on Apple\u2019s design excellence and superlative innovation, just point and laugh. Some of us have been saying for years that what Apple is really good at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,41,15],"tags":[160,476,1235,174,27],"class_list":["post-16259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-espionage","tag-esr","tag-innovation","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65619,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions\/65619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}