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by gowld 1722 days ago
Right. In Jobs world, that meant stuff like taking existing Chinese tech and making it into something with worldwide wow/cool factor.
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You got me curious. Which Chinese tech did he steal to make the iProducts with?
> Jobs world, that meant stuff like taking existing Chinese tech

It was a reference to Apple apocryphally stealing "the mouse, windows, icons, and other technologies that had been developed at [Xerox] PARC" [1].

They didn't copy an existing product. They deprived Xerox of the market into which to launch their own product.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html