"Copying Doesn't Stop Innovation"

James Allworth:

Apple didn't stop innovating at all. Instead: they came out with the iMac. Then OS X ("Redmond, start your photocopiers"). Then the iPod. Then the iPhone. And now, most recently, the iPad. Given the underlying reason that Apple has been bringing these cases to court was to enable them to continue to innovate, it's hard not to ask: if copying stops innovation, why didn't Apple stop innovating last time they were copied?

Is this guy for real!?

Apple didn't stop innovating; Microsoft did! Microsoft rode a poorly worded gravy train to over-priced glory then tossed the tech landscape into a monopolistic dark age. Samsung was on track to accomplish the same thing. This doesn't stop the innovators from doing their thing. That's in their DNA. It stops their competitors from innovating, and that destroys the work of the people who are "pushing the human race forward".