[TC Rider]

You are repeating urban myths.

Yet there is no listing on Snopes for these 'urban myths'.

I never said the Steves, though both have committed felonies, or that Apple 'stole' the technology, just that some of their most touted accomplishments were the work of others.

They have another bad habit of picking names for products that are already in existence, witness the big payoff to McIntosh labs back in the early 80s, and the ongoing tussles with the Apple music label.

[KarlInOhio]

They have another bad habit of picking names for products that are already in existence, witness the big payoff to McIntosh labs back in the early 80s, and the ongoing tussles with the Apple music label.

That probably comes from Steve Jobs getting a vision for the name and going with it, while just about any other company would run it by the legal department to check if they could get the trademark.

[Uri’el-2012]

Apple has a history of lifting technology from other's efforts, witness the mouse

Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute invented the mouse in 1964

The first mouse to be shipped as a part of a computer and was intended
for personal computer navigation was Apple's Macintosh I Mouse.