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Originally Posted by jjallenupthehill
Well - really, no.  Seriously. You won't believe the time it can take a designer to get a simple thing right, |
I can believe that it is possible to waste lots of time doing something any talented high school student could complete in minutes. That still does not even remotely compare to the work involved in the design of significant functional blocks in a smartphone.
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Originally Posted by jjallenupthehill
Sadly, you're just wrong here. I know it sounds completely counter-intuitive, and very possibly quite mad, but sometimes 'simple' design is quite the opposite. To achieve something that looks simple is often much more complex than something which looks, well - complex.
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Maybe so, but that does not detract from the fact that it is trivial compared to the real work and education involved in functional design. If the design look is unique enough then maybe it deserves trademark protection, but it certainly is well outside of the class of work deserving patent protection.