Yeah Apple has always done stuff like that, taking existing techs and abilities and branding it as their own. Synchronized audio with other media in a radio style format had been around before apple started branding it. I like how apple "invented" the iCloud and it was (according to them) the newest and greatest thing to hit the world. I was using synchronized network storage years before the "cloud" word came into being. Apple likes advertising "new" features on their phones like they are the ones who thought of them. When the iPhone came out with fingerprint recognition, I thought it was funny because my non-apple phone had it for 2 years before iPhone decided to add it to their phone. Then they patent it and try to sue the people who had it already but decided not to patent it because it was an existing technology. Reminds me of Thomas Edison "inventing" the light bulb. He was just someone who decided to patent an existing invention. An invention that had been around for several decades but was not patented. The same goes for other Edison's "invention": the movie camera, the telegraph, the electric generator, and several others. He was just the guy who decided to patent something that already existed. In my eyes Apple is just as evil as Thomas Edison. They are both nothing but popular and respected patent trolls. They were both thieves. ... Apples tried suing Microsoft for the look and feel of the Windows operating system because Apple had it patented but Apple did nothing but steal that look and feel from Xerox's X-Windows which existed for several years before Apple decided to patent it.

As you can see I have no respect for companies like Apple. They are the worst of the worst. They hinder innovation by trademarking and patenting public technologies then suing anyone who tries to expand on the innovation.

That's my rant... for now.