Comments on: Bill, Steve and The iPod http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:26:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908#comment-18554 Reader's Write Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:19:49 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908#comment-18554 Ummm, duhh, It's called "prior art" bitches. This story has been wrongly reported starting with a "rumor" reported by Appleinsider.com. The story was then regurgitated, with pro MS embelishmennts and titles like 'Did MS invent the iPod', by a bunch of 'know nothing else but bytes' tech. reporters. Then you little MS fanboys get your little woodies and say 'ah-ha, we always knewr that Bill would get Apple and it's iPod!" Fact is, you can't patent something that already exists, it's *FiRsT to iNvEnT*, not *FiRsT to FiLe*. Apple has NOTHING to fear from the MS patent, which is still under review after being rejected itself BTW!!!! see: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220030221541%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030221541&RS=DN/20030221541 Ummm, duhh,

It’s called “prior art” bitches.

This story has been wrongly reported starting with a “rumor” reported by Appleinsider.com. The story was then regurgitated, with pro MS embelishmennts and titles like ‘Did MS invent the iPod’, by a bunch of ‘know nothing else but bytes’ tech. reporters. Then you little MS fanboys get your little woodies and say ‘ah-ha, we always knewr that Bill would get Apple and it’s iPod!”

Fact is, you can’t patent something that already exists, it’s *FiRsT to iNvEnT*, not *FiRsT to FiLe*. Apple has NOTHING to fear from the MS patent, which is still under review after being rejected itself BTW!!!!
see: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220030221541%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030221541&RS=DN/20030221541

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908#comment-18506 Reader's Write Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:01:19 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908#comment-18506 heh... I wonder if microsoft could force Apple licence fairplay drm in order to continue the use of the iPod interface...... Either way it will be kind of funny that all the mac lovers will be giving Microsoft money when they buy an apple product... heh… I wonder if microsoft could force Apple licence fairplay drm in order to continue the use of the iPod interface……

Either way it will be kind of funny that all the mac lovers will be giving Microsoft money when they buy an apple product…

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908#comment-18501 Reader's Write Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:01:04 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908#comment-18501 It's not an issue of microsoft coming up with the ipod first. Bottom line, they legally outmanuevered Apple with the patents. Then again, how a company comes out with a market changing product like the iPod but doesn't have the presence of mind to patent it is beyond me. Maybe they should have spent less time and money on marketing campaigns and public relations and spent more time with their legal department! Microsoft got this one fair and square. With any luck this will help push the iPod, which is a sub-par device in all regards (except style) back from the forefront of the DAP market. Long live the law! -Nev It’s not an issue of microsoft coming up with the ipod first. Bottom line, they legally outmanuevered Apple with the patents. Then again, how a company comes out with a market changing product like the iPod but doesn’t have the presence of mind to patent it is beyond me. Maybe they should have spent less time and money on marketing campaigns and public relations and spent more time with their legal department!

Microsoft got this one fair and square. With any luck this will help push the iPod, which is a sub-par device in all regards (except style) back from the forefront of the DAP market.

Long live the law!

-Nev

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908#comment-18477 Reader's Write Sun, 14 Aug 2005 02:54:15 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/5908#comment-18477 "a Microsoft researcher's patent application, filed after the iPod was introduced" This is Microsoft filing a patent AFTER Apple has released the iPod, so it is obviously not a case of Apple "borrowing" anything from MS. If anything there should be questions about where this MS employee got his ideas. Apple stupidly waited far to long to patent an idea they had already implemented, but to suggest that Microsoft is in anyway responsible for the iPod is absurd. “a Microsoft researcher’s patent application, filed after the iPod was introduced”
This is Microsoft filing a patent AFTER Apple has released the iPod, so it is obviously not a case of Apple “borrowing” anything from MS. If anything there should be questions about where this MS employee got his ideas. Apple stupidly waited far to long to patent an idea they had already implemented, but to suggest that Microsoft is in anyway responsible for the iPod is absurd.

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