Yeah, that iPad thing was no big deal. Never mind the 25M units sold. Never mind that everyone is furiously trying to imitate it.<p>Syncing everything to the cloud and back to all your devices and actually making that work, and signing deals with all the record companies so you can do this with your music collection without it being a prohibitive pain, also no big deal.<p>Some people are awfully demanding. :)
Taking great features from others should be nothing to be ashamed of. It’s what made Android great (among other things, obviously).<p>I always hate it when companies are unwilling to copy great ideas because of, well, I don’t know, maybe pride? It’s bad for the user. Mobile OS A has great feature X, mobile OS B has great feature Y, but no OS has features X and Y – and that just plain sucks for the user.<p>It goes without saying that sometimes it’s good to copy a little less and do things your own way a bit more. That was the situation in 2007. Recently, Microsoft also went that route (and they should be admired for that). But sometimes it’s not. Polishing iOS seems like the right thing to do right now – and that includes looking elsewhere for inspiration.
It's not the first time JB apps are implemented on new iOS releases.<p>I.e.: MobileNotifier, CameraButtons.<p>I think Apple actually needs jailbreakers.
I'd argue that the only true innovation Apple made with the iPhone was with the App Store, which didn't even happen until a bit after the launch. Apple gathered what they thought were best technologies, honed them, and made them work together.
ah bless. Apple product announcement and all the websites and bloggers and journalists are scratching their heads.<p>"How can I turn this into page views. Gee the overview of what he said - been done a million times. What about slagging it all off - well it is pretty interesting stuff though. I know. I'll come up with a trolling headline and use some tricksy language making myself look cool so it's not really slagging them off at all. hmm. got it. Redefine innovate to mean first one ever to think of an idea. Bingo. "<p>"Damm. Better start thinking about the next release......"