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Originally Posted by HarryT
You may not think so, but the fact is that no Smartphone did this until Apple came up with the idea. Sometimes the best ideas are obvious in hindsight, but it still takes someone to come up with them in the first place...
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I don't think this is a case of one of the best ideas. It's far from being a significant invention if an invention at all, which is why HTC were intent on removing the functionality in question entirely from their devices before they reportedly found a workaround.
Also, it is not Apple's idea because they were the first to port it to a new category of phones, but because they patented it in 1996 a long time before smart phones.
Anyway, whether no one ever thought of
combining parsing to hypertext before 1996 or they did but Apple was the clever party to patent it, my point was that the ability to patent such a non-invention is ridiculous.