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Originally Posted by startnew.jdr
I never understood this kind of stuff. Pinch to zoom, so apple came up with that for mobile phones...so what. So no one else can use it now? It's like saying hey guys, we have this great new advance in technology, but you can't use it at all in any of your technology.
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While pinch to zoom and some other UI gestures that first appeared on the iPhone may seem intuitive now, they're not "obvious" and Apple was the first to develop the idea (presumably spending a good chunk of R&D money in the process).
So it is reasonable for Apple to get paid by other companies to use these innovations, as long as the licensing fee is reasonable. As long as they're not blocking competing products from the market -- that's anti-competitive.