How did it fell inside Apple when Android pivoted to be an iPhone lite

Question

I had this interrogation when reading the thread on Google rebooting its AR initiative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29566313We often talk about business consequences of a company "stealing" your ideas/features and their defensibility, but for the teams involved in innovation at such high competitive level, it must be soul crushing to live through it.

gcheong · Accepted Answer

Are you assuming that those people were hoping their innovations would only benefit Apple and their customers? If an athlete comes up with a new technique to boost their performance it will be quickly copied by competitors and the higher bar of performance becomes the new normal. I don't see why you think it would be soul-crushing to know you've had that kind of impact.

mytailorisrich · Answer

Android did not do anything to Apple. Being copied means you're correct.What Android did is kill off all proprietary OSs so it that was "soul crushing" it must have been at Samsung's software team, Microsoft, etc.

muzani · Answer

I'm always proud when it happens. The feeling is more like, "See! I'm not crazy! You guys said it was a dumb idea but now X Corporation is doing it!"Competition is a different thing with tech. There's more worry that the market doesn't exist than there is that someone is going to take market share.

_448 · Answer

Let us go a few decades back and ask this similar question:
"How did it feel inside Xerox PARC when Apple pivoted to GUI lite?"
Or,
"How did it feel inside Go Corporation when Apple and Microsoft pivoted to tablet lite?"

How did it fell inside Apple when Android pivoted to be an iPhone lite

Android did not do anything to Apple. Being copied means you're correct.
What Android did is kill off all proprietary OSs so it that was "soul crushing" it must have been at Samsung's software team, Microsoft, etc.

I'm always proud when it happens. The feeling is more like, "See! I'm not crazy! You guys said it was a dumb idea but now X Corporation is doing it!"
Competition is a different thing with tech. There's more worry that the market doesn't exist than there is that someone is going to take market share.

Let us go a few decades back and ask this similar question:
"How did it feel inside Xerox PARC when Apple pivoted to GUI lite?"
Or,
"How did it feel inside Go Corporation when Apple and Microsoft pivoted to tablet lite?"

How did it fell inside Apple when Android pivoted to be an iPhone lite

Android did not do anything to Apple. Being copied means you're correct.What Android did is kill off all proprietary OSs so it that was "soul crushing" it must have been at Samsung's software team, Microsoft, etc.

I'm always proud when it happens. The feeling is more like, "See! I'm not crazy! You guys said it was a dumb idea but now X Corporation is doing it!"Competition is a different thing with tech. There's more worry that the market doesn't exist than there is that someone is going to take market share.

Let us go a few decades back and ask this similar question:"How did it feel inside Xerox PARC when Apple pivoted to GUI lite?"Or,"How did it feel inside Go Corporation when Apple and Microsoft pivoted to tablet lite?"

Android did not do anything to Apple. Being copied means you're correct.
What Android did is kill off all proprietary OSs so it that was "soul crushing" it must have been at Samsung's software team, Microsoft, etc.

Let us go a few decades back and ask this similar question:
"How did it feel inside Xerox PARC when Apple pivoted to GUI lite?"
Or,
"How did it feel inside Go Corporation when Apple and Microsoft pivoted to tablet lite?"