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so everything is an invention? I tend to think of an invention as the class, not the object. And by class, I mean a fairly abstract one, the iphone is an impl

• k-mcgrady 12y ago
  NB: Not sure why you were down voted, it was a perfectly valid comment. I agree with you. I guess I'm just giving the author a little credit: I think he understands the iPhone itself isn't an invention but that things like multi-touch displays were invented to make it possible. They didn't just take available parts and put them together, they had to invent stuff which would come together to create something. The comparison to the bulb is unfair as that is a 'simple' object (it does one thing, has one function).