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by joezydeco 2995 days ago
Could be patent violations.

A few jobs ago I was working on a video player for an embedded device and the UX team mimicked the CoverFlow interface gimmick.

We had a C&D from Apple within a few months of showing it in public.

I would assume there are other patents. For example, sampling the cover art to decide on the background color. Was that an Apple thing? I don't know.