Apple Wins $1 Billion Patent Case
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- ernexbcn0
I know you didn't say they stole it, and I don't need to justify any argument here.
XEROX had something they didn't know how to market or they didn't care to market it for the consumers. Steve Jobs saw its potential and managed to create a product out of that paradigm, a deal was made and that's it.
Apple didn't invent the MP3 player but created the one that became the best selling. They didn't invent the PDA either but tried once with their Newton. They didn't invent the smartphone but disrupted the market with theirs, not only by being a computer company releasing a phone which was odd but also by not taking any crap from the operators. Phones before the iPhone were basically designed or crippled by the phone companies intentionally.
So they might not invent whole items, but they innovate a lot in key areas of them. Good examples are power management, the unibody manufacturing process, multi-touch technology.
They have either licensed or bought entire companies that developed technologies for the devices they sell.