[berntb]

>>No, the iPhone and iPad and all of Apple's products have been built upon ideas and inventions created by others outside of Apple.

They also incorporated steel -- an invention centuries (millennia?) old...

Point was, they did something new with the iPhone. The same thing with the iPad, when they invented a way to make tablets which people would pay money to use.

>>I had to respond when someone claims these products were "totally new under the sun".

You really didn't get the point...?

[mantrik00]

Apple did not invent the tablet computer. Tablet computer's existed even before the iPad. Even a start up by the name Fusion Garage launched joojoo before Apple launched the iPad. Just because Apple's tablet has succeeded in cornering a large part of the market doesn't mean they were the first at it. In fact, Apple has no manufacturing capacity. It outsources all of its manufacturing. It is just a marketing and retailing company.