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In 2005 Creative beat Apple, whose side you took then?
- pan69 14y agoWe took Apple's side since these sort of lawsuits are petty. It's the same reason we now take Samsung's side.
- shimsham 14y agooh look, the wind just changed direction...
- y2kenny 14y agoWhat was the patent? What are the prior art for Creative's patent?
- calciphus 14y agoThe patent was on the nested menu style of media organization. So that familiar artist/album/genre drill-down UI that the original iPods had and made them so famously usable. I don't know of any direct prior art, since apparently a slightly different form factor yields patent protection. If I recall, the Creative product was the first to do this on a mobile device, however it was a familiar media access technique for a number of players on computers, including Winamp.