1. Steve Jobs was refering to how Microsoft stole apple's GUI. This quote is actually a stab at microsoft. He means you need some skill to steal and make something sucessful rather than just copy it. some innovation is needed to be agreat artist, but either way, there is a negative connotation and you can tell Jobs was really mad that his idea was ripped off.
2. The lawsuit was filed by Apple against Microsoft and basically said Microsoft had taken Apple's GUI elements and tried to pass them off as their own. Apple did not win the lawsuit, but it was a major controversy.
3. I think Jobs was definitely talking about his situation with microsoft, and that the great artist was Microsoft. I think he meant they got away with stealing his ideas and were able to profit from them, making tehm a great artist rather than a copy-cat that was not successful.
4. Mac's market share has continued to rise. Here is a link to a picture I found:
http://k-line.org/9/images/March09LinuxMarketShare.jpg
You can see Windows owns the majority, but is very closely followed by Mac. This picture is from April 2009.
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