[egyptiankarim]

Right?! I can't wait for the computer-human interaction research teams to jump on this trend and start publishing! The CHI/HCI/HCC community would flip out. My favorite example of how this sort of transparency would benefit the community: In 2009, Microsoft published an academic paper called "Mouse 2.0" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/mouse-2...), where they walked through the research prototypes for touch-sensitive peripherals. The paper was met with awe and acclaim... A mere few months before Apple took the Magic Mouse to market.

[threeseed]

> A mere few months before Apple took the Magic Mouse to market

Apple released the iPhone 2 years before the Magic Mouse and that paper was released.

Quite sure that it was also an inspiration.

[egyptiankarim]

Definitely.

[optimuspaul]

Months? The Magic Mouse was released a few weeks later, not nearly enough time to develop the product based on the paper.

[egyptiankarim]

My implication was that Apple had been doing that research work behind the scenes the entire time.

[mcphage]

> A mere few months before Apple took the Magic Mouse to market.

So you're implying that Apple saw the idea, copied it, and used it to bring a product to market—in months? That's not how any of that works.

[nl]

No, the implication was that Apple had been working on similar ideas but hadn't published them.

[egyptiankarim]

Exactly!