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sfpcjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 12:44 PM Original message |
Open the iPod Bay doors, Steve. Ahem... you make it in China for $22 even tho your profit's Galactic |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. . . . argues Samsung. " (nt) |
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sfpcjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yeah, but they left out the Henry Fordism part. |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yeah |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Sounds like there's a least a little more to it than that |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 02:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I guess we'll have to see if there's evidence of prior use |
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RockaFowler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 02:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Isn't Kindle touchscreen, too?? |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. It is, but it's not very Ipad-y, either in overall design or in the interface. |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Well, it isn't so much a matter of the entire touch-screen concept |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Hard to say. Also hard to say the flood of new tablets aren't an attempt to copy the Ipad. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. The Pet Rock was hardly innovative, sleek or stylish... |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 03:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. A bit silly. "Marketing" does not explain the success of the Ipad, et al. It's not a "pet rock." |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Apple Newton. |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 03:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I don't think that's what this suit is about |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 03:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Gizmodo suggests that Apple did invent the gestures, & Samsung lazily copied them. |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 03:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Yes, but Giz is Apple-slanty |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 03:47 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Making intuition work with technology is extremely hard work. And eminently patentable. |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 04:00 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Maybe |
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sfpcjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 05:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Weren't a lot of those gestures and such covered by Spielberg in Minority Report? |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 08:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Sci-fi movies don't actually wipe out patents. Apple never owned the mouse. |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 08:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Dupe. Weird. |
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Nuclear Unicorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 05:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. dude |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 08:35 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Good idea. Just go back in time and create the first typing device that actually worked. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
20. so you can patent science fiction? who knew? |
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sfpcjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
24. "I made it in China for 2o bucks and had a 10 billion-dollar corporation pocket the difference." |
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