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0 pointschristoph14y ago0 comments

I agree in principle. However, it's not "easy" money, he produced a quality, well thought out app and then got lucky (or executed a well thought out strategy) with marketing.

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jacquesm14y ago· 2 in thread

Something that has already been made can be copied much quicker than it was originally developed.

christophOP14y ago

Touché.

"Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal"

jt219014y ago

  > "Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal"

Forgive my pedantry, but I hate to see a favorite quote of mine used with the wrong context for the word "steal":

  "One of the surest tests [of the superiority or 
  inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows.
  Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal..." [1]

[1] http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borro...

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