Apple hates it when you steal their shit

Apple is pissed at HTC. I guess the HTC Android phones (maybe WinMo phones also?)  use things that Apple has patents on.  I am all for these companies suing the shit out of each other.  It keeps lawyers busy when they have no ambulances to chase.

I like this quote:

In the release, Steve Jobs says, “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it…We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

I agree with Steve on this one.  Companies should not go to design labs and copy what they see there.  It would be like Jobs going to just off the top of my head, Xerox PARC and seeing the Alto.

For those that don’t know,  the ALTO was a non production computer developed at the Xerox PARC.  It had a mouse, bitmap display,  and GUI interface.  It was basically the Apple Lisa/Mac.  He took their ideas and made a fortune off it.

Steve forgets his past,  he buys into his own bullshit.  Hell he thinks the iPad is magical and revolutionary and not just a bigger iPhone,  that should show you the depth of his problems.

The Xerox Alto