Meh, I wouldn’t read too much into it. Computer companies, and especially software companies, “steal” ideas from each other all of the time.
Microsoft would be negligent if they didn’t consider what Apple is doing well that Microsoft isn’t, and frankly, the opposite is true as well.
“Microsoft would be negligent if they didn’t consider what Apple is doing well that Microsoft isn’t, and frankly, the opposite is true as well.”
Very true. Most people don’t know, or choose to forget, that Jobs and Woz (the Apple founders) originally stole the GUI idea from Xerox Park. The fact that they make better machines than PC’s running Windows isn’t because they’re more original, they just have a better quality control system in place.
Are PCs (laptops and desktops) even that big of a part of Apple’s revenue or profit base anymore? Seems to me like they really make a lot of their money from iPods, iPhones and, now, iPads. Those things sell in vast numbers and generate lucrative spin-off purchases of software and media from Apple’s e-stores.