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Old 12-21-2011, 11:57 AM   #42
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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, and the law (at least in the US) says that the person who comes up with the idea has certain rights to it, and that other people can't copy it without their permission.
I worked for a tiny mobile phone company where we had this feature. It was not a smartphone, it was a feature phone. It was pre-2005.
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