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> The question though is whether some other developer could, given the idea of "1 click buy", create this "invention". I totally disagree with that. There's ev
by galkk 6y ago
> The question though is whether some other developer could, given the idea of "1 click buy", create this "invention".
I totally disagree with that. There's even apocryphal story that when 1-click purchase was implemented, developer actually couldn't resist of adding "are you sure" message box, because just click and buy is so against typical patterns.
I can give another example - socket wrench. Ratcheting wrench was patented on 1863. It took 110 years to invent quick change socket for it, although if you look at it you will say - well, everybody could create that invention.
- andykx 6y agoI don’t think that anecdote serves as a good counterpoint. I think that developer was implying that such a button might lead to accidental purchases, not that the concept of clicking a single button to purchase something was some kind of inventive concept. In my opinion, it’s a stupid idea and I think anyone could have come up with it. No one did it because it’s an anti-pattern.
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