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by CamperBob2
5041 days ago
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But the fact is that if they were so obvious, then how come Apple was (in many cases) the first to successfully implement them? Take your pick: 1) Because somebody had to be first. 2) Because no other major consumer electronics executives had the Jedi-level reality distortion skills needed to negotiate with the cellular carriers. 3) Because bouncing menus need a convergence of two technologies in order to make sense: a very fast CPU or GPU, and a fast, responsive touchscreen that can detect swipes. Resistive touchscreens were never going to work well for the purpose; only Apple had the foresight to move aggressively the second that capacitive multitouch tech became feasible. As the other poster mentioned, ideas are worth jack shit. Implementation is all that matters. If Apple hadn't done it, someone else would have. Their reward for acting quickly is self-evident, isn't it? They sold 100,000,000+ iOS devices before they ever set foot in a courtroom. Artificial market distortion in the form of patents on trivial "innovations" is demonstrably unnecessary for Apple's success. |
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