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Something can be brilliant without being innovative. Most people have no problems operating a "slide your finger on the screen to do more" widget, even without
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
Something can be brilliant without being innovative. Most people have no problems operating a "slide your finger on the screen to do more" widget, even without being trained by Apple's original visuals.
Think about it. A touch screen can only detect a limited number of basic interactions. All interactions with the software must occur through those basic primitives. Touching the screen and moving your finger are really the only two things the interface can recognize.
- RIMR 11y agoI think you're conflating "brilliant" with "obvious". It's like if someone was called brilliant for suggesting that we should turn our phone screens off when they aren't in use to save battery. It's just the obvious solution, and patenting it and enforcing that patent is just meant to create obstacles for competitors. Apple thinks it own the very idea of the smartphone. They even claimed they owned curved corners... It is nice to see them get a taste of their own medicine. It would be great if they won, just so we could use the precedent to make them lose all of the asinine lawsuits they start.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI think they might be synonyms. Finding the obvious could be considered the pinnacle of insight. Of course, once it is found, it is obvious, but until someone says it, it may not be. I agree that finding the obvious should not entitle you to "own" it or allow you to prevent others from using the insight. Anyone who does claim that (e.g. Apple) should be ridiculed mercilessly for it.