I was just about to put the same thing. but we can go all the way back to the 1st mobile if we wanted too.

This between Samsung and apple is getting out of hand but then again its not just these two that are at it lots of companies are trying to sue each other over stupid things. Apple went after HTC a few years ago and they won because they have been making smart phones sine 2000 and it went there way.

Some one needs to look at what's going on and put a stop to all of this because as far as I was aware I am aloud to buy what I want and having more choice is better than only having one choice. It is also what keeps each company pushing the other because everyone takes things for everyone else.

IOS has now started taking ideas from both Windows Phone 7 and Android and im sure the others will so the same too as well as put ideas of there own in there.

Didn't Microsoft and Apple steal from IBM?

If u ever read about silicon valley you would know. That Xerox Parc made the 1st rough concept of a mouse and graphical user interface. But sadly Xerox and IBM thought that they were mere gimmics and not worth the money. THEY WERE DITCHED.

But Thank you steve jobs :) He got a contract with Xerox, letting Xerox have shares in Apple in the early days. They let steve have a look at their brain storming team rooms, steve plus a few apple engineers went off with the abandon mouse and graphical user interface. Physically design a mouse which was low cost and a graphical user interface which could beat command line entry system.

Gil Amelio licensed out the GUI to Bill Gates in 80's for Windows 1.0 but gates went off with the concept for windows 2.0. GUI became the backbone of both Apple and Microsoft OS's.

If you ever wonder why Mac's cost so much?

Bill Gates was the guy who hated the idea that sofware was free. Slammed people like Steve jobs who were giving gates work out for free.

Steve Jobs said Apple computers should be low cost and the software should be free. But he wasnt the CEO at the time so the pricing was set by the CEO at the time.

Hence why Apple costs so much now.

I understand the point you're making about how companies in the consumer industry work, but your examples are lacking. If you subtract every one of those on your list, Sony would still have a LOT of their own product, namely new and original IPs, that matter. On top of that, there are countless mart racing games, and I don't see which one from Sony is a Mario Kart clone. Vita cross play is an evolution of what they already had with the PSP, and if "most" of Vita's features are from the DS, then everything from both of them are from smartphones and tablets.

Fair point.

Still like bloody children, its embarrassing.