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The perfect pizza box has been invented, but Apple hoards that IP, and keeps it from The People. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/78/74/d5/3374ac379

The perfect pizza box has been invented, but Apple hoards that IP, and keeps it from The People. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/78/74/d5/3374ac3799a99b/US20120024859A1.pdf https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/78/74/d5/3374ac3...

danaris 4y ago
Until 2029, when the patent expires and anyone can make one...
ohgodplsno 4y ago
In typical Apple fashion, this pizza box only holds perfectly round pizzas, churned in a factory to all look the same, ignoring the work of craftsmen and artisans that make non-round pizzas.
- microtherion 4y ago
  For the benefit of readers who may not realize you’re joking, it may be worth pointing out that this box was designed for use in Apple’s cafeterias, which serve artisanal pizzas baked in wood fired ovens: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa784v/sources-apples-pizza-is-very-good https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa784v/sources-apples-pizza-...
trynewideas 4y ago
https://designawards.core77.com/Packaging/62804/Zume-Pizza-Pizza-Pod https://designawards.core77.com/Packaging/62804/Zume-Pizza-P... Zume, which pivoted from kitchen robotics and IoT to pizza: https://archive.ph/TP9nb https://archive.ph/TP9nb To food packaging: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-zume-become-packaging-innovator-alex-garden https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-zume-become-packaging-inn... Zume no longer lists the Pizza Pod in their catalog: https://docsend.com/view/gxeeruv7mi3mbg4p https://docsend.com/view/gxeeruv7mi3mbg4p There are knockoffs going for $1.25/unit (uline's equivalent traditional square cardboard box is $0.78/unit, Pratt sells square cardboard boxes custom-printed for $0.84-$1.48/unit): https://www.goodstartpackaging.com/pizzaround-pizza-box-12-100-count/ https://www.goodstartpackaging.com/pizzaround-pizza-box-12-1...
- TradingPlaces 4y ago
  Seems to be missing the all important steam vents (32 in patent drawings)
fortran77 4y ago
In fact, this was in the article we're discussing! > "Even Apple—that Apple—has patented its own round pizza box exclusively for its famished Cupertino office workers" and they link to the patent and show a photo.

danaris 4y ago

Until 2029, when the patent expires and anyone can make one...

ohgodplsno 4y ago

In typical Apple fashion, this pizza box only holds perfectly round pizzas, churned in a factory to all look the same, ignoring the work of craftsmen and artisans that make non-round pizzas.

microtherion 4y ago
For the benefit of readers who may not realize you’re joking, it may be worth pointing out that this box was designed for use in Apple’s cafeterias, which serve artisanal pizzas baked in wood fired ovens: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa784v/sources-apples-pizza-is-very-good https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa784v/sources-apples-pizza-...

trynewideas 4y ago

https://designawards.core77.com/Packaging/62804/Zume-Pizza-Pizza-Pod https://designawards.core77.com/Packaging/62804/Zume-Pizza-P... Zume, which pivoted from kitchen robotics and IoT to pizza: https://archive.ph/TP9nb https://archive.ph/TP9nb To food packaging: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-zume-become-packaging-innovator-alex-garden https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-zume-become-packaging-inn... Zume no longer lists the Pizza Pod in their catalog: https://docsend.com/view/gxeeruv7mi3mbg4p https://docsend.com/view/gxeeruv7mi3mbg4p There are knockoffs going for $1.25/unit (uline's equivalent traditional square cardboard box is $0.78/unit, Pratt sells square cardboard boxes custom-printed for $0.84-$1.48/unit): https://www.goodstartpackaging.com/pizzaround-pizza-box-12-100-count/ https://www.goodstartpackaging.com/pizzaround-pizza-box-12-1...

TradingPlaces 4y ago
Seems to be missing the all important steam vents (32 in patent drawings)

fortran77 4y ago

In fact, this was in the article we're discussing! > "Even Apple—that Apple—has patented its own round pizza box exclusively for its famished Cupertino office workers" and they link to the patent and show a photo.