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I 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 t
by RIMR 11y ago
I 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.