Apple iBag
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I-ping.
I am very much looking forward to the iBag.
I envision taking it on the train with me and drawing the envy of my fellow commuters. I plan to dump walking shoes and a change of clothes in there. Maybe a snack and a couple cans of beer for the ride home.
iBag. Consider me an early adopter.
Its too early for April Fools so I'll take this seriously as a modern, real life version of the Emperor's New Clothes. Its also a good example of certain trade publications having an orgasm over pretty much anything that Apple does.
Is this satire?
Does it offer anything my Timbuk2 messenger bag doesn’t?
Just remember that Apple is run by a bunch of loopy leftists that are drunk on their own market power. So, an Apple Bag is 1000 times better than just a plain ole bag.
iHill
http://gizmodo.com/apple-reveals-hill-1759729869
Gizmodo must be upset Apple didn’t put more innovation into the iPhone7.
The phone seems plenty decent to me. I’ll be picking up the iPhone7 plus in the next few months.
I found the patent and skimmed it. This link might work: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220160264304%22.PGNR.&OS=DN%2F20160264304&RS=DN%2F20160264304
It’s very detailed, and having dealt with other Apple packaging I’m sure it’s a magnificent rendition of the shopping bag. Can’t fault Apple for putting in whatever effort it has, and legally ensuring others don’t just copy it outright. Seems stupid, yes, but between the excellence Apple pursues (you may not like what they do, but must admit they work real hard at it) and the propensity of patents to include ridiculous variations (didja know using a USB cable inside a kiosk is patented?), they have to do some things which seem kinda absurd just to ensure their efforts pay off and aren’t flagrantly copied by others. Having dealt with crappy renditions of shopping bags before, I can appreciate someone wanting to do it _right_ for their product line and tell others to bugger off copying it.
Here is a link to the entire patent.
https://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat20160264304.pdf
Read the whole thing before you assume they are just trying to patent a simple bag.
Or not.
So I am actually rather pleased that Apple spend some time doing this patent application for a bag, even though I imagine that a little bit of what I paid for my iPhone went towards that effort.
Because today, I received significant value, in the form of unbridled merriment, from reading their patent application.
Thanks for the chuckles, guys.
Go ahead, try reading just the "Claims" section out loud. See if you can get through it with a straight face.
I’m assuming that this is satire.
If not, then GMAFB!
Next is the perfect gift for men to their wives, the I Ron. :>)
No. Tim Cook would insist on it being called a “Tea Bag”!
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Apple had to patent the bag. Before Samsung copies it. Even with a patent, Samsung will copy the bag, and line it with flame-retardant foil. To keep the flames from Galaxy 7 phones from burning customers. But customers get burned regardless when buying from Samsung.
The old saw is that “if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.” What they don’t tell you is that people who haven’t read the patent application will assume that you are trying to patent the idea of catching mice and laugh derisively.