[globelamp]

Apple offered stock options to Xerox in return for getting access to the PARC research.

Android was a grand betrayal on Google´s part - they had a seat on Apple´s board of directors, and appearently used that in order to swipe the iPhone concept in order to remake what was originally supposed to be a BlackBerry ripoff into an iPhone ripoff. I don´t blame Jobs for being pissed at Google for that.

[CSI007]

I had a smartphone before they were popular. As a matter of fact I owned two generations of them before an iPhone even saw the light of day.

The argument that apple actually started the smartphone is simply not true.

[Carry_Okie]

Apple offered stock options to Xerox in return for getting access to the PARC research.

And Xerox did not accept that deal. Whose private property was that GUI?

[Carry_Okie]

I seem to recall an old Silicon Valley joke:

Q: Where does Apple do most of its R&D?

A: In its legal department.

[Swordmaker]

Apple offered stock options to Xerox in return for getting access to the PARC research.

Not stock options. Apple gave Xerox one million shares of pre-IPO Apple common stock worth $7 per share. They gave them an interest in the company! Xerox became an owner of Apple! They sold those shares after the IPO for about $16 million.

[Swordmaker]

Apple offered stock options to Xerox in return for getting access to the PARC research.

Not stock options. Apple gave Xerox one million shares of pre-IPO Apple common stock worth $7 per share. They gave them an interest in the company! Xerox became an owner of Apple! They sold those shares after the IPO for about $16 million.