In 2005 Creative beat Apple, whose side you took then?

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by atirip • 14 years ago

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pan69• 14 years ago

We took Apple's side since these sort of lawsuits are petty. It's the same reason we now take Samsung's side.

shimsham• 14 years ago

oh look, the wind just changed direction...

y2kenny• 14 years ago

What was the patent? What are the prior art for Creative's patent?

calciphus• 14 years ago

The patent was on the nested menu style of media organization. So that familiar artist/album/genre drill-down UI that the original iPods had and made them so famously usable.

I don't know of any direct prior art, since apparently a slightly different form factor yields patent protection. If I recall, the Creative product was the first to do this on a mobile device, however it was a familiar media access technique for a number of players on computers, including Winamp.

In 2005 Creative beat Apple, whose side you took then?

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