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So obvious....
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 01:40 PM EDT
Right, once you can produce a tablet
(anything but obvious)
the thin rectangle with rounded
corners is obvious.

(Do you think that the
Soylent Green tablet worked?)

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  • So obvious.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 01:54 PM EDT
    • So obvious.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 02:25 PM EDT
    • So obvious.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 02:26 PM EDT
What an idiot !
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 01:56 PM EDT
"This movie clip renders the iPad design so obvious that it
took 35 years for anyone to produce it. However, once Apple
did produce it, it is the only design anyone uses. Yep.
Definitely obvious. Apple did not do anything but the
obvious."

It didn't take anyone 35 years to produce the design, we see
it there in the photos, it took 35 years for the technologist
to actually implement the design.

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  • What an idiot ! - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT
  • What an idiot ! - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 18 2012 @ 11:39 AM EDT
So obvious....
Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 02:00 PM EDT
It used to be that TVs were trapezoidal boxes. Star Trek showed flat panels,
but no one started making them. Then suddenly, 20 or 30 years later, everyone
started making TVs in the shape of flat rectangles. Somebody was copying!!!

In reality the design was obvious way back then, but the technology didn't
exist. After thousands of independent technical inventions, LCD TVs became
feasible and cost effective. And that happened at approximately the same time
for all potential builders. It would be completely unreasonable for an early
LCD monitor producer to say to RCA "we came out with a product first -- you
can't change your TV design from a box to a panel".

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So obvious....
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 03:10 PM EDT
That's a very stupid comment in light of the fact that the hardware needed to
bring that type of design into reality appeared at about that time.

IOW design was about 35 years ahead of hardware. And I'm sure it still is in
most areas.

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Yes it is obvious
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 20 2012 @ 05:47 PM EDT
The only thing one had to wait for was the availability of parts. Once the
parts are available, everyone builds one.

Yes, it is obvious. Anyone who says otherwise is a moron or deliberately lying
to protect Apple.

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