The article states "I’m not naive enough to claim Apple actually took my idea." You apparently are, though.
Apple rips off student's rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo
C'mon. "Wi-Fi Sync" is hardly a surprising name for such a feature, and making its logo the bog-standard Wifi logo with a bog-standard Sync logo superimposed is hardly a surprising choice either. It was a long-expected and long-awaited feature.
Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC
A controversy about the bog-standard term "widget".
Apple stole Karelia Watson
Well, it made its own version and named it cheekily. This seems to be the one mostly valid case in your post.
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The article states "I’m not naive enough to claim Apple actually took my idea." You apparently are, though.
C'mon. "Wi-Fi Sync" is hardly a surprising name for such a feature, and making its logo the bog-standard Wifi logo with a bog-standard Sync logo superimposed is hardly a surprising choice either. It was a long-expected and long-awaited feature.
A controversy about the bog-standard term "widget".
Well, it made its own version and named it cheekily. This seems to be the one mostly valid case in your post.