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Nobody are claiming Apple invented phones with big screens. But you have to be pretty blind to not see that iPhone was a revolution in the smartphone market, wh
by gnaffle 14y ago
Nobody are claiming Apple invented phones with big screens.
But you have to be pretty blind to not see that iPhone was a revolution in the smartphone market, which had barely seen any user interface innovation in 10 years prior to that.
- blaines 14y agoI'm pretty sure this was a patent infringement lawsuit, so the statement that the "iPhone was a revolution" is irrelevant. Apple won a claim against Samsung for mimicking "bounce back" behavior among other patents. Hopefully pull-to-refresh isn't patented. I'm not about to look either lest I be found willfully infringing.
- nirvana 14y ago>Apple won a claim against Samsung for mimicking "bounce back" behavior False. Patents don't cover features. Patents cover inventions. Apple won against samsung for copying apple's solution for how to implement a feature. Not for having that feature. This misrepresentation trivializes the nature of the patents and is ideologically driven. Don't fall for it. If you disagree, try reading the patent.
- blaines 14y agoI'll check it out. I remember seeing a number of patents involved in the case, just haven't read them. My comment was certainly a generalization.
- gnaffle 14y agoPull to refresh is patented by Twitter, and Apple has bought a license (apparently, since it'll apparently be implemented in iOS 6).