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I am not saying this is right. But I think it is something poetic about a company that sues and wins over Samsung for a "design patent" and uses the fact that
by skinkestek 3y ago
I am not saying this is right.
But I think it is something poetic about a company that sues and wins over Samsung for a "design patent" and uses the fact that Samsungs lawyers cannot see the difference as proof...
when that company gets hit by a ridiculous "intellectual property" lawsuit.
Said as an Apple user who has brought in a number of new Apple users, meaning I am not against Apple only against ridiculous "intellectual property" laws.
- ceejayoz 3y agoIt's hard to look at pre-iPhone and post-iPhone smartphones and not see a pretty clear dividing line with significant shift in looks and functionality. I'm leery of design patents, but it's hard to say there wasn't some invention going on there. We've had easy fingertip pulse oximetry since 1977, and Masimo was founded in 1989. It's unclear to me what in their patent is novel.
- skinkestek 3y agoThe big change with iPhone was the lack of physical keyboard, wasn't it? The form factor square with rounded edges in itself has been used for calculators and pocket PCs long long long before iPhone hasn't it?
- etchalon 3y agoThe big change with the iPhone was the entire concept of how a smart phone looked and worked.
- evilduck 3y agoNah, Windows Mobile, Palm devices and even the Newton had virtual keyboards long before the iPhone came around. They were resistive screens with shitty operating systems that required a stylus to do anything but the lack of a physical keyboard is not the difference. Smartphone design language changed dramatically after they all started copying the iPhone.