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Considering this patent was filed in mid-2011 and is almost certainly claiming an earlier invention date, I think you may have your order of events backwards.
by roc 14y ago
Considering this patent was filed in mid-2011 and is almost certainly claiming an earlier invention date, I think you may have your order of events backwards.
- potatolicious 14y agoThe company behind Pebble has been working on smartwatches for a lot longer than Pebble - well before 2011. There was even a launched product - inPulse - before Pebble.
- roc 14y agoAnd? The claim was the reaction to the Pebble is what motivated Apple. I merely posited the calendar doesn't support that. If you want to generalize it to "Apple is doing something similar to what other people had previously done" that's a completely different argument.