A patent for a glass cube!
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/28/89/c3/fd8ac1d...
With the large caveat that I'm not an expert on IP law, I do feel like a lot of allowed patents have a net negative value to society.
No it doesn't.
How the fuck is this patent worthy? The patent describes nothing more than using a smartphone to remotely control a ship's various control methods backed by a data link that's monitored for link quality.
I really can't say I blame them either, look at the lines of patent trolls lined up in West Texas every year to sue them. State of the nation...
I do have to wonder if someone went back to criticize the fact a dead man is the most inventive corpse since 2Pac and Biggie if the patents could be invalidated as superfluous. Yeah right, it's Apple.
[1]:https://youtu.be/gBcOBWq8J6w?t=36
On another note, I find that LCD screen and color pallet they used in the phone cooler looking than the dull flat design muck I am used to seeing everywhere. They basically took those old Green monochrome LCDs and acted as if those screens were naturally going to evolve into some sort of el type display as the next generation. They didn't see the rise of CPU power enabling full color full motion displays like we have now.
EDIT: corrected which movie
However, I respect that they don’t hide that.
A lot of articles are really “stealth ads,” masquerading as “news,” so it’s refreshing to see these folks just come out and say it.
It is also genuinely interesting and original subject matter, not just reflected text from another site.
I know the author, thanks for sharing your views. I will share your feedback ahead. I do not think their intention is to advertise Apple because most of their articles are on analysis based on patent data.
> You can learn much about a company’s market value and upcoming business plans by analyzing patterns in its IP strategy. Being a pioneer in the IP R&D space, GreyB has the expertise and resources to help you cut through the noise and get actionable insights on a company or innovator.
The sad part is the website doesn't work on mobile properly. And each link redirects to their internal website instead of original patent url.
There is a patent ID and it is cool!
Thanks for sharing feedback about website and content. I will share it ahead with the authors. I think it wasn't their intention to advertise Apple here but if it is feeling like an advertisement, then they sure can improve they way they have portrayed this analysis.
About their internal tool. I would be open to share your feedback about this as well if you share it with me.
Would be open to hear feedback from other readers too. Please reply to my comment and I can share it ahead. Thanks.
I have a similar issue with imgur in Europe, but I don't care enough about either website to delve deeper.
He's the only innovator left at Apple. /s
It does look like they have a legitimate BI product. It isn't what I need, but I did appreciate the insight.
Like I said, even though it is an ad, it is one that is actually useful as legitimate information.
Will share this ahead as well. Thank you.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur...
My guess is that it's this issue again: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639542 but if that's the case I can't really blame the website here, other than that it doesn't show a fallback error message when Javascript crashes.
Based on a sibling comment, I'm guessing this website is using Firebase Auth, which uses the IndexedDB API, which Mozilla has disabled for private browsing.
One of the console messages.
Secondly, the Bond movies are set in the modern day (or close enough). So unlike say 2001 A Space Oddesey the gadgets Q comes up with aren't an attempt to foresee technology development in the distant future.
So the fact that it uses a UI in common use in the mid-90s is to be expected.
Generally speaking (there's some exceptions) no technology in the Bond universe is too outlandish to pass as potential modern day advancements in some top-secret MI-6 laboratory.
Marvel's Time Variance Authority is still my favorite retro futuristic tech. I wonder if anyone is using that kind of display in real life outside of games? Doesn't seem like many apps use it, even though there's lots of cyberdecks that would look cool with it.
Also it is worth noting that ideas are a dime a dozen. Years ago I red Getting Things Done by David Allen and I set up my GTD system in Ultra Recall. Since then, I had the idea for the best personal information management system ever. Too bad, I carried the idea with me for too long and never executed on it. Recently I discovered that somebody had very similar idea and the application is called Notion.
See, it does not matter if you have an idea, it only has any worth if you can also execute on it.
As in they notice that the patent was filed and copy it before you launch? Isn’t the system noisy enough that this would be really hard for them to do well?
China has more than enough people to throw at a problem that's very easy to parallelize, and a culture that doesn't give a fuck about Western ideas of intellectual property ("gongkai" [1]).
And yet, our politicians seem to be happy to deliver our IP, our jobs, everything to a nation that's at least hostile towards us, on a silver platter.
(Note that I actually prefer the way of gongkai, but unfortunately it'd destroy our economic models so I see no way of reform in that direction ever happening -.-)