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This has been around for so long I wonder if there's a patent that is in the way of apple implementing it. Even though I tend to like Apple gear: if there is s

• paulmd 2y ago
  if it’s parent-encumbered, it’s literally been recognized as a novel and advanced innovation, that’s why it’s granted a patent in the first place. Choosing to license vs wait is a business decision but you’re spinning something that’s objectively true into somehow being a “trick”, which is a really common pattern when discussing apple for some reason (“selling or renting first-party tools is a trick”, for example).
  • gumby 2y ago
    > if it’s pa[t]ent-encumbered, it’s literally been recognized as a novel and advanced innovation I think it's pretty clear by now that the patent system rarely works that way in practice, though that is the intent. And I was merely joking that whatever apple announces has to be "revolutionary" or "groundbreaking" or "jaw-dropping". Whatever the quality of the product (and for their hardware, it's typically high), the company culture is to staple a bunch of superlatives onto the headlines. (BTW I don't know what “selling or renting first-party tools is a trick" means)