Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord

Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by solidrake on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:21PM (#18365382)

What has Apple invented? As far as I'm aware, they have patents of re-purposing other inventions, or design patents. But cannot think of anything they "invented" that didn't already exist before.

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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by bsimpson on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:26PM (#18365414)

They were the first to mass market capacitive touch/multitouch. I believe they acquired many of the underlying technologies, but so far as I know, they were the first to ship a multitouch user interface with a capacitive touchscreen.

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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by briandear on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:02PM (#18366247)

Multitouch was an Apple invention. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1036701/US7479949.pdf

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