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Exactly, it's a failure for now, but apple now owns the intellectual property to that forever. If anybody ever finds a better way to use it, they own it and can
by dawg- 7y ago
Exactly, it's a failure for now, but apple now owns the intellectual property to that forever. If anybody ever finds a better way to use it, they own it and can jump on the opportunity. That's why when you are a company like apple with mountains of cash, you can feel good about investing money developing fancy aspirational things, even if they don't pan out immediately.
- onion2k 7y agoapple now owns the intellectual property to that forever The main patent on the 3D touch technology expires on March 3rd 2033. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9772721B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US9772721B2/en