I am one of the biggest
Apple haters, but that they are definitely not to blame if someone copies their stuff for free and tries to make money out of it. It is very similar to one guy doing all the hardwork for the exam, and his neighbour ends up copying his entire paper only to get the seat that the chap who actually studied, ends up missing. It is ridiculous at the least. People like he judge who passed the outrageous decision in favour of
Google are the ones who are killing innovation. Seriously, what is the motivation to invent something knowing fully well that it can be copied by anyone without your permission or compensation. One could rather just wait for someone to come up with something and then copy it. Far easier, not to say cheaper.
I appreciate your stance irrespective of you being an Apple hater.
Big companies spends millions of $$ to do usability research and spend some more $$ to implement the results in unique ways.
"Some of the" free and opensource projects blatantly copy the innovations and come for the competition.
Big companies behind these opensource project spend some $$ to fund the development / feature duplication.
And try to earn huge money indirectly by providing hardware or software solutions around that opensource project.