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[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation (karlbode.com)
submitted 3 days ago by GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The [Creative] Zen patent (6,928,433) covers the aspect of the user interface where a user can select at least one track in an MP3 player using at least three screens to browse for that track in a hierarchical method. As the Creative press release states: “One example would be the sequence of screens that could display artists, then albums, and then tracks. When the user selects an artist, the player displays a list of albums for that artist. Selection of one of the listed albums then displays a list of tracks on the album.”

I don’t think Apple stole UI from Creative.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, I'm pretty sure they licensed it, and so did Dell. Go look at Dell's MP3 players, damn near identical interface.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Being able to browse songs by album/artist (the sole focus of the Creative patent dispute) doesn’t seem to be a major factor for the iPod (or its success, disregarding marketing). The innovations were elsewhere.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Elsewhere as in the companies and idividuals not employed by Apple that actually invented the things Apple sold? Correct.