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Originally Posted by Kevin8or
HTC shouldn't be able to copy Apple's code, but they should be free to create their own code to implement the same idea. IMHO, of course. Sometimes it's hard to stomach the stuff I read about copyrights and patents.
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That's the thing, though, about these "obvious" ideas: they are obvious only in hindsight. Yes, it may seem obvious to convert anything that looks like a phone number into something that you can tap on to dial the number, but the fact is that it's Apple who first thought of the idea, and that gives them rights to it.