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by gnaffle 14y ago
You said: "Apple has invented or innovated precisely bugger all there.". I was simply trying to see how unreasonable such a statement is considering the companies that Apple bought and the work those companies had done in getting stuff like
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by gnaffle 14y ago
So other companies are more interested in being innovative than profitable and have decided to not spend as much as Apple on marketing (and polish), and that's the reason why Apple is succeeding?
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by gnaffle 14y ago
So I guess with your insight Apple could have saved lots of money by not buying FingerWorks, PA Semi etc and just launching a Newton with a color display and make it look pretty. Right? If you don't see any software innovations in iOS, you'
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think simplicity isn't the only story, it's usable simplicity. If simple was the only game in town, Apple would only need the iPod shuffle and something like John's Phone ( http://johnsphones.org/ ) to rule the world. The iPod and iPhone
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think it's better to compare Apple to a high-end restaurant. You don't get three Michelin stars just by making the customer feel special and having lots of fit and finish, the food also has to be something special. Yet still, of course th
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I'm not sure how they could block them through litigation. My guess is that they will sit quietly and watch the PC makers having another go at this "no compromise" form factor.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Yes, but design patents are a different animal, and AFAIK much easier to work around. So if they changed just one aspect of the design (making it less likely to be confused), Apple would have a harder time enforcing it.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Apples patents are clearly not patents on "smartphones with a rectangular touchscreen and no external UI buttons", but they cover many inventions that make such a phone usable. Likewise, apart from a totally different kind of flying machine
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by gnaffle 14y ago
If it was that trivial, I would at least expect Google or Nokias Maemo to have come up with such an interface before 2007. I don't think the work put in by FingerWorks, and then the work put in by Apple to create the iOS user interface was
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by gnaffle 14y ago
You've said ad nausium that the market wasn't ready, yet obviously the market was ready when the first iPhone launched since it became a big success. By saying the market wasn't ready for capacitive touchscreens due to price, you're implyin
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by gnaffle 14y ago
My point exactly. :)
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by gnaffle 14y ago
So Apple brought it to market at the exact point in time that it became viable. The other companies were "waiting" as you say, so why did they wait so long? Didn't they see that the technology was about to become viable? I don't buy that th
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by gnaffle 14y ago
So? The G1 launched in October 2008, over 1,5 years after the first iPhone, and it didn't even have multi-touch enabled. So my question is still, why weren't competitors further along in utilizing capacitive touchscreens if these advancemen
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by gnaffle 14y ago
What evidence was presented that Samsung had a similar phone in the works in 2007? One with a capacitive touchscreen and a user interface optimized for finger touch? For all I know they might have been "thinking" about it, but why didn't th
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by gnaffle 14y ago
If the market was just waiting for capacitive touchscreens to become available, why did it take all the others years to come up with anything competitive after the iPhone launched? Why didn't they all have capacitive iPhone look-alikes read
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by gnaffle 14y ago
That's why Apple patented a lot of the small details that make the iPhone better, instead of just patenting quality.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
No, they didn't have to. The CPU speeds, storage and screens existed years before the iPhone launched. The iPhone did have a capacitive touch screen, but that wasn't exactly new, bleeding edge technology. Three years earlier in 2005, the N7
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Pull to refresh is patented by Twitter, and Apple has bought a license (apparently, since it'll apparently be implemented in iOS 6).
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Then I wonder why other companies hasn't realized this and hired the same marketing company as Apple uses? If marketing is all (or mostly all) there is, why can't other companies easily replicate Apples profit margins? Why didn't Apple just
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I also got many years out of my old Nokia smartphone (which on paper could do more than the first iPhone). However, I immediately understood what a revolution the iPhone UI was when it launched. Lucky for Apple that most competitors had key
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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.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The dozens of different Windows versions, the fact that their new flagship tablet ships in two versions with incompatible instruction sets, where one will only run "Windows 8 style" applications, and that the operating system itself has two
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Actually, there have been numerous cases where Ryanair has decided to not cover expenses for cancelled or delayed flights, something they are required by EU law to do. (You'll find posters stating those rights put up by the aviation authori
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think the biggest motivation for me would be to be able fly to someplace, maybe a small airfield, and not have to worry about making arrangements for a rental car or find someone to pick me up. I doubt this is the final answer, but it's a
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Ryanair isn't subsidized. It's a bad airline that doesn't need to fail because it makes money. It's one of the airlines in Europe with the worst customer service track record. The same is true for lots of other compenies with terrible custo
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by gnaffle 14y ago
While Linux usability can always improve, what's breaking Linux desktop adoption is that 1) there isn't a good enough reason for most people to switch to Linux, and 2) there are compelling alternatives in the tablet market. I know a few non
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I'm sure they've made similar comparisons, just look at the Samsung phones that preceded the iPhone. But if they have hundreds of other documents, I assume they would try to get them admitted into court in order to marginalize this document
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by gnaffle 14y ago
What native devices do you want to see? What kind of devices do you want that would need Thunderbolt speeds, and aren't on the market today? Could you have gotten Thunderbolt speed with Firewire? No. For slower data rates you have USB (2 an
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by gnaffle 14y ago
What planet are you living on? Apart from the Thunderbolt display, there's lots of storage devices available. If you don't want storage but something else, you can get Thunderbolt to PCI expansion boxes that you can plug your favorite card
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Won't turning off HiDPI just make the monitor "normal" - eg you have 4 pixels per 1 "normal" pixel, but it's not like the image will look worse because of that?

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