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"Piles" in Panther
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by Macman: HAS 1000 POSTS:
Hey, if Apple patents it then what's wrong with them only being able to use it? Maybe they don't want anyone like Microsoft copying them for a change? Besides, folks will find ways around them (probably going to call them stacks and have them be slightly different).
[ April 16, 2003: Message edited by: Macman: HAS 1000 POSTS ]
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I agree,
Or, instead of people stealing it, they could charge people to use it. This would help the mac community get more money. I also think the piles thing looks promising, but I wonder how long it will take me to get it into my workflow, or even if I will be able too. I only have 2 macs and have to use a PC. The PC will not have this and so it may be hard for me to fit it into my computing workflow. So far I am pretty good and doing things only the mac can do and then doing them half as good in RH9 and Windows 2000.
ravuya:
Apple does indeed have the [patent|trademark] on this fancy little UI widget, and I think it'd be a great innovation to add to the OS. No doubt other companies would steal it, but then again nobody else has jacked Column View (potentially the most useful method to navigate anything) yet.
rtgwbmsr:
Piles look cool, and I agree that it's only really useful for organizing small groups of files.
quote:Originally posted by Ravuya:
Apple does indeed have the [patent|trademark] on this fancy little UI widget, and I think it'd be a great innovation to add to the OS. No doubt other companies would steal it, but then again nobody else has jacked Column View (potentially the most useful method to navigate anything) yet.
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Maybe in the next Windows version...or the one after that. I'm sure something similar will pop up.
Pissed_Macman:
<RANDOM THOUGHT>Hey, Microsoft should make a combination of a computer and a console and call it XP-Box. HAHAHAHAHA</RANDOM THOUGHT>
Faust:
quote:what's wrong with them only being able to use it?
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quote:they could charge people to use it. This would help the mac community get more money.
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No offence but you both need to stop blind mac worship. Xerox or whoever came up with the first GUI. Does this mean noone else should be able to have a GUI? The first web browser was on a NeXT computer I belive so no other OS bar NeXT can have a web browser? Only the first OS to have a start bar can use a start bar? Only the first OS to be "plug and play" can be plug and play? Bullshit. When an idea is important enough then it needs to be used to the advantage of all, not just Apple - the consumers are the ones who need to benefit not the corporate elite. It would also be wrong for Mac to charge for this concepts use - that money will end up being taken from the consumer and if that happens then it would just be equivalent to Mac stealing from the users whether they use Mac, Windows or Nix. All OS's "steal" at some point from the competition and I doubt you would hold the same position if it was Apple "stealing" this idea from Microsoft.
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