Taking ideas from…. or why we have to stop the whole "They stole that from them" Cyber mentality

So this week we happened to have the release of Apple's latest release of their smartphone operating system iOS 7, and wouldn't you know it, not less than 24 hours after the release people were taking to social media touting all that "Apple stole from Android".

As our Smartphones face demands from us users for them to Do More for us, that means things have to be rewritten. in some cases the idea, much like in the day and age of Windows and Mac's early days, can come from something that has been coded into a competition's software. 

Many modern users may not remember the days of things like Dos Prompt and  Command lines, or how things progressed in Graphical user interfaces, how interfaces like the early Apple GUI lead to Microsoft's Windows 95 interface being met with Apple poking fun and saying  "Windows 95, Been There, Done that, 10 years earlier"

Many of the swipe up type gestures in iOS 7 actually I find tend to remind me of BlackBerry's BB10 and QNX interfaces, some have even compared it to Palm / hp's Web OS (screen shot below)

Palm / HM WebOS on a Tablet

Fact is as we, the users of Technology, put more demands on what we want our Technology to do for us, We're going to see a lot more commonality in the ways the Operating systems are coded and how the programming interface works to meet those needs. So with that in mind, maybe…just maybe it's time we actually forgot about the whole "But Mine Does it Better" and "Yeah But They Stole that from Us" battles and just be thankful that our Technology ACTUALLY WORKS!