April 23, 2005
Jobs Says Microsoft "Shamelessly Copying"
Steve Jobs is talking smack and the media is loving it. Microsoft is even talking back by saying Apple is copying the evil empire too. You have to love competition. It's kind of ironic though because Microsoft kept Apple on life support by investing a lot money into Apple stock back when Jobs first came back. Without that support and a pledge to keep developing Microsoft Office, Apple would probably be dying on the vine. However Mr. Bill Gates probably invested back then just to get the Justice Department off its back. And also it turned out to be a VERY profitable investment.
Jobs of course doesn't know anything about shamelessly copying. Remember Xerox Parc operating systems? Remember taking the Woz's Atari programming work and claiming it was his own? Let's just forget the past why don't we? Game on!
"They are shamelessly copying us," he said during Thursday's annual meeting. Most telling, Jobs said is that Tiger, the next version of Mac OS X, will go on sale later this month, while Longhorn is still more than a year away. "They can't even copy fast," he said. Some of Apple's advances can be protected by patents, he said, but not all. "Innovation is the only way to win," he said. "You just have to stay ahead of people." Source: News.com [Discuss]
