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		WayneDB on Nov 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept ... The idea of tablets and portable devices has been around since the fifties, they didn't invent multi-touch and they built OS X on the back of Unix. How am I wrong?

brown9-2 on Nov 2, 2011 [–]

Was the idea for Kinect one that didn't exist before, or that required no previous accomplishments (such as Unix --> OS X)? That seems unlikely.

WayneDB on Nov 3, 2011 | [–]

Fine, Microsoft didn't do anything new with Kinect either. That still doesn't prove that Apple did anything original.

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