bleh
personally I don't see the iPhone as being all that innovative all them pocket sized electronics had been heading on a path of convergence for years. Between the PSP (zomg has a rectangular screen and a circular button with a square on it, looks like a stolen apple design to me), NGague, various palm PDAs, MP3 players, cellphones, it was about damn time someone put all that stuff in one device, seriously I'm lazy and only want one thing in my pocket. tbh I haven't really even kept up with pocket sized electronics in years, so maybe I'll go buy a smartphone or something sometime soon.
the rounded rectangle is just such a basic geometric shape I might as well try to trademark a common word and sue everyone that uses it. I was thinking of the word the™ now whenever you say the™ send me .01 currency units!
and most of the other patents seem to be small software features that in no way should be patentable. can apple demand people remove sliding glass doors as they slide and grant access to a building? and my first cell phone had a lock that required you to press 1 2 3, more or less the exact same gesture (yea okay slide to unlock wasn't in this trial but I'm bitter about it).
Bounce back, okay kinda a nice feature but can easily work around it, then again how much is that really worth?
touch to zoom to text, it just seems logical that if I'm looking at a large web page on a small screen that I would want to zoom, if we look at the adobe pdf reader I have select, zoom, and the hand tool. with a touch screen the hand tool can just be a gesture, so might as well put zoom on the one touch. although if that is specifically designed to look at the text then that should be easy to dodge.
maybe it is all just that simple because it is 2012 and not 2007 and apple didn't "invent" it all yet
that said multi touch does seem to be a newish thing and I'd say is worth protecting.
maybe something else, no one seems to have a nice and easy chart saying what won/lost
(, Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:24, Reply)
sweet
image that shows most of the stuff involved
si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-UH759_APPLEV_G_20120825011630.jpg
design: yea they did a pretty exact copy, probably shouldn't be able to patent the rounded rectangle but should be able to come up with a slightly different design.
rounded square icons on the interface: errm isn't that more or less the same with every graphical OS out there now?
(, Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:57, Reply)
I thought Samsung's infringement claims were dismissed?
That image does not show a fair split of patents - it seems Apple have patented the 'it does X when I poke it like Y' and Samsung have patented the important stuff - managing battery, prioritising data, multi-tasking etc.
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JeremyBeadlesHands, Sat 25 Aug 2012, 11:09,
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