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Jobs' statement at the time was the intent to make it a published standard. If that standard was patent encumbered (or could be claimed to be, as the suit did)
by Jtsummers 2y ago
Jobs' statement at the time was the intent to make it a published standard. If that standard was patent encumbered (or could be claimed to be, as the suit did) then it would be pretty hard to convince other people to implement that standard, and difficult to get a standards body to actually publish it. Why would Google, MS, or anyone else implement something if it'd get them bogged down in the same lawsuits Apple was already dealing with?
- viraptor 2y agoThere's lots of standards covered by patents. Gif included https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF
- Jtsummers 2y agoYes, which is a great example of a patent encumbered standard creating problems for people implementing the standard. Considering FaceTime postdates the GIF experience, I'm sure plenty of corporate lawyers understood the problem much better.