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It was apparently novel enough that a number of companies and open source projects have now implemented similar UI feedback where they didn't have it before.
by mratzloff 14y ago
It was apparently novel enough that a number of companies and open source projects have now implemented similar UI feedback where they didn't have it before.
- ta12121 14y agoMany breakthroughs are invented multiple times before they stick. The patent doesn't belong to the one who made it popular, but the one who made it first.
- mratzloff 14y agoIf that applies here, please point to a piece of software that did that prior to the iPhone. I would be genuinely curious to find out about it.
- ta12121 14y agoMaxwellKennerly above provided references to prior art. You disputed said references by claiming that other products copied Apple. I pointed out that just because it was Apple who made these features popular, leading to other products copying them, doesn't mean that the features could not have been independently invented prior to Apple. I refer you to the original comment for the prior-art examples.