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03/01/2007, 12:25pm, EST
Thursday, March 1st
Apple granted patent for Zune-like casing
Apple today successfully patented an "electronic device formed with doubleshot injection molding." Although seemingly dry, the patent (originally filed in August 2005) effectively refers to the technique used in Microsoft's Zune player to create its distinctive glowing border effect, creating two differently colored edges to a single plastic shell. It is yet unknown whether Apple intends to use the patent directly in future iPod or Mac products, but the existence of the patent suggests that the Cupertino-based company has contemplated use of the technique. Apple last year settled with after the latter company won a patent on the the menu system used by Apple in its iPod portable media players. Apple's CEO Steve Jobs announced after the settlement that Creative was lucky to have filed for the patent first.
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I love it when Microshit gets it up the ass.
And in the other top story it says "Justing"
Oh, and I like the phrase "that Creative was lucky to have filed for the patent first." Lucky? In what sense? Lucky they came up with the idea before apple, and filed a patent before apple did? You got to love how Jobs tries to make it sound like Creative just fell into the patent. And if it were Apple who got the patent, I'm sure it would be expounded upon about their rich design history, not that they were "lucky" to get it first.
It sounds almost like the 'revolutionary' easy to use interface that people crowed about the ipod wasn't that revolutionary, let alone an apple invention.