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Apple Literally Stole My Thunder https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455

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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