The only thing that bugs me is when people say everyone is copying Apple. Steve Jobs was a reinventer (brilliant man) but everything Apple made was a copy, just made better and easier to use. Didn't make the first mp3 player, tablet, smartphone, touch screen, computer mouse, computer, etc etc. Just copied the idea and made them better and popular THEN other manufactures copied a now popular device. And apple fans should be greatful since every update device isn't much better then the last but imagine how bad it would be if there was no competition? The iPhone 1 would still be out, why make something better when its the best? Apple and Android need each other...
well, actually, fact is everyone
did copy Apple (in regards to desktop computer, laptops, mp3 players, phones and tablets). Obviously Steve Jobs didn't invent the products themselves, i.e., the phone or the cell phone. Nor did he invent the MP3 player, the laptop, etc etc. What he
did do was invent evolutionary and industry shaking ideas. Ideas so evolutionary that they then became the standard and benchmark for which every other company/product thereafter tried to copy. Those ideas were portrayed in the form of his products (ipod, iphone, ipad, etc). When the Ipad was introduced, everyone looked at it with a puzzled look. "why would anyone care about the Ipad...it won't sell, it's just a humongous ipod." but what's happened since then? everyone company on the block has released their own versions of tablets (without much success) after watching the success the iPad has had.
everyone
did copy Apple. As in, they are copying their products; Apple products that are deeply infused with ideas created by Steve Jobs.
to make a statement like, "everything Apple made was a copy". ok, and? you're basically saying that Apple copied the first Phone ever invented? so Apple copied Antonio Meucci who was the first to patent the telephone in 1871? that isn't a very significant statement. but you can say with a certainty that the entire industry did copy Apple's iPhone since its release, and the same for Apple's iPod and iPad. without those evolutionary products, we probably wouldn't have a lot of the great (and no so great) products we have today, all of which copied ideas and designs established by the aforementioned apple products.
what i'm most wondering is...what the direction and future of apple will be without the demanding perfectionist that Steve Jobs was. He was the driving force behind taking un-popular ideas and making them the most popular ideas in the world. i don't know...maybe the Apple Television will be the next evolutionary product? i doubt it thought. without Jobs, it'll be tough for Apple to make any earth-shaking moves again.