http://www.iovene.com/35 The thoughts of a computer programmer, open source supporter and free-thinker. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.iovene.com/35#comment-74 Salvatore Iovene » Please stop talking about iPhone clones Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:46:30 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/steve-ballmer-on-the-iphone-pathetic/#comment-74 [...] Given that Apple Inc. will release the iPhone only next Fall, and that there are many devices already out there, which have been yelled at as mere “clones” (absolutely disrespectfully, IMHO), how can you people abuse the term so much? I’m assuming that nothing really serious leaked from Apple, so the competitors didn’t just rush to make their own touch screen phones. The truth is that the technology started to be ready, and the market started to be ready too, at the same time. Some people missed the opportunity and couldn’t even accept it, some other realized the chance and went for it. [...] […] Given that Apple Inc. will release the iPhone only next Fall, and that there are many devices already out there, which have been yelled at as mere “clones” (absolutely disrespectfully, IMHO), how can you people abuse the term so much? I’m assuming that nothing really serious leaked from Apple, so the competitors didn’t just rush to make their own touch screen phones. The truth is that the technology started to be ready, and the market started to be ready too, at the same time. Some people missed the opportunity and couldn’t even accept it, some other realized the chance and went for it. […]

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