[zach]

Users are delighted that Apple creates these little flourishes, the tiny details that add character and engagement to things like the iPhone.

Many have noted and appreciated the focus that lead Steve Jobs and Jony Ive to spend ages designing something consumers hardly notice.

And they've demonstrated quite well that the parts of a product which others consider trivial and put little thought towards, are in fact the places where a maker can demonstrate the care they have for the product, and by extension, for customers.

But then when they turn around and patent them, the knives come out. Because Apple staking a claim to these silly, trivial designs is ridiculous and "disgusting".

It's going to be really hard to resolve these two viewpoints.

[omnibot]

This gesture existed before the iphone.