Please tell me they haven't actually been granted this patent. Can we stop patenting every little thing? I'd like to see patent reform along with copyright reform.
"And BOY have we patented it!" (Jobs loves his patents).
Someone should patent the process of looking both ways when you cross the road :P
Actually, it's pretty common practice to patent this kind of thing and as I recall there is a reason for it... It's certainly stupid, though, especially when you consider that the only people who have the time / energy to do it are ginormous corporations like Apple.
Anyhow, looks retarded to me. Why can't the iPhone just do this directly? Heck, I can directly download / listen to music on a Nintendo DS in the middle of nowhere, and that thing is a lot less powerful than an iPhone!
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Please tell me they haven't actually been granted this patent. Can we stop patenting every little thing? I'd like to see patent reform along with copyright reform.
"And BOY have we patented it!"
(Jobs loves his patents).
Someone should patent the process of looking both ways when you cross the road :P
Actually, it's pretty common practice to patent this kind of thing and as I recall there is a reason for it...
It's certainly stupid, though, especially when you consider that the only people who have the time / energy to do it are ginormous corporations like Apple.
Anyhow, looks retarded to me. Why can't the iPhone just do this directly?
Heck, I can directly download / listen to music on a Nintendo DS in the middle of nowhere, and that thing is a lot less powerful than an iPhone!
they patent everything because if they didn't microsoft would come out with a ZunePhone with all the same features