"Oh, so your 10.4 has indexed search and Expose? Well look at what my pimped XP can do.."
"So you have hardware accelerated video filters? Well look at what I can fetch, hack and compile my Gentoo into.."
I'm not saying Android is bad, but this znet post is just stupid, sorry. Apple has never really been a big inventor of new technologies (apart from industrial design), but integrating existing ideas as good as possible. Some people prefer to tinker on their smartphones, some people like me get enough tinkering on their desktop PC and like their notebooks and smartphones to "just work" (quoted because it's actually not always like that with Apple products anymore, but at least their iOS devices are pretty solid in what they do).
Integrating, assembling and perfecting existing technologies and ideas is what they are. Interface demos with similar or identical gestures existed before. Capacitive touch screens existed before. These two devices have been big leaps, yes, but I don't see why it contradicts my point. My point was: Stop justifying your favourite products vs. my favourite product by saying stuff like "but it can do that too, your stuff is so unoriginal, duh!" /Louis C.K. voice off. Just fucking choose and live with it - or change it.
"So you have hardware accelerated video filters? Well look at what I can fetch, hack and compile my Gentoo into.."
I'm not saying Android is bad, but this znet post is just stupid, sorry. Apple has never really been a big inventor of new technologies (apart from industrial design), but integrating existing ideas as good as possible. Some people prefer to tinker on their smartphones, some people like me get enough tinkering on their desktop PC and like their notebooks and smartphones to "just work" (quoted because it's actually not always like that with Apple products anymore, but at least their iOS devices are pretty solid in what they do).