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Why is Apple evil for defending itself from companies who are copying much of the look and feel of their phones? If you invented a new approach to smartphones
by comatose_kid 14y ago
Why is Apple evil for defending itself from companies who are copying much of the look and feel of their phones?
If you invented a new approach to smartphones that became really successful and changed the industry, wouldn't you want to protect your hard work from others who copied it?
- CamperBob2 14y agoApple has sold over a hundred million iPhones and has sewn up a large chunk of the most profitable market segment. That should be enough of a reward.
- comatose_kid 14y agoApple defined the landscape that all Android phones now inhabit. Your view doesn't make sense to me. If you buy a nice car by working hard, should I be allowed to take it from you after you have had 'enough' time to drive it?
- CamperBob2 14y agoPatents should be granted only on IP that would otherwise risk being locked up indefinitely as a trade secret. Otherwise, they aren't promoting the "progress of Science and the useful Arts" but instead feathering the nests of incumbent producers at consumers' expense. The patents being lobbed about like grenades don't fall into that category, IMO. No one would ever need to read a patent to see how to implement "slide to unlock."
- vitriolix 14y agoApple built a product that was innovative but clearly derivative of what Motorola had been selling for decades, why shouldn't Motorola defend itself in the market it created?
- stanleydrew 14y agoThis is a terrible analogy. If you take my car, now you have one car, and I have none. That's a zero-sum game. The smartphone market is not zero-sum. There is plenty of room for multiple similar products.
- fkdjs 14y agoUh, Apple has copied android. iOS'es most fundamental feature, notifications, was ripped off from android.
- slantyyz 14y ago>> iOS'es most fundamental feature, notifications, was ripped off from android. I won't dispute whether notifications was ripped from Android, but calling Notifications the "most fundamental" feature of iOS is an incredibly huge stretch. If you ask 10 iPhone users what the most fundamental feature of iOS was, you'd probably get 6 or 7 different answers.
- fkdjs 14y agoIt's the centerpiece for interacting with apps. It's key. In fact, I'm betting it contributed to people confusing android with ios, it's that similar and pervasive. Before they were ripped off the biggest complaint about the iphone was it didn't have android-style notifications. There were many different knockoff apps since people disliked ios notifications so much and apple ended up hiring the lead dev from one of them(mobile notifier) So Apple greatly benefited from ripping off android as this allowed them to close an obvious gap.
- slantyyz 14y agoIf you asked me, Safari is the centerpiece of the iPhone and always has been. It's even more important than the ability to run third party apps. It was the first phone browser done right, and is still arguably the best. Outside of the phone operations, I would trade away every possible feature of iOS for Safari. Notifications is an annoying piece of crap for a lot of people including me. That isn't to say the previous generation of alerts were not worse, they were. But I highly doubt that many people think it is THE cornerstone feature. For some, like me, it's Safari. For others, it's FaceTime, others the camera, etc.
- fkdjs 14y agoLooks like there can be multiple things that are important to a phone's operation.