[IxDA Discuss] Apple's Gesture Dictionary

[kiddfelish at aim.com]

Pauric -



Well put! I was discussing these downsides of patenting UI elements with friends over the weekend. I also hope these go unenforced.

Sincerely,
Stacy Felish


-----Original Message-----
From: pauric <radiorental at gmail.com>
To: discuss at lists.interactiondesigners.com
Sent: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:18 am
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Apple's Gesture Dictionary




Whether the gestures prove to be intuitive or not... I'm a little
bemused as to the short-sightedness of patenting a gesture language.

The reason we have qwerty, for all its faults, is that its an open
standard.  Users can move from one machine to the next without having
to re-learn how to input.

Patenting a specific gesture sets the world up for a plethora of
non-infringing implementions for those vendors that cant use Apple's
ideas or wont pay a potential royalty.

Hopefully they wont enforce it.  Very disappointing if they do,
especially coming from a company that differentiates on designing for
the user, where's the greater good?  

In other news, the Queen patented the English language, all non-Brits
must now start paying royalties to the royalty.

p.atently-evil


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