Why is Apple trying to patent a notification light when such things already exist? What about lighting their logo makes it any different from a blinking red light on a 90's era answering machine?
You really don't need obscenities to point out the absurdity.
And what's really absurd is that Apple might have thought they needed to do this because patent law has gone right off the rails. In no small part to companies like Apple patenting stupid shit like this.
Oh, I seem to have slipped into obscenity myself... Maybe I was wrong about that.
No (Score:5, Insightful)
This should not be fucking patentable. It's a fucking notification LED.
A somewhat less aggressive approach to no (Score:2)
You really don't need obscenities to point out the absurdity.
And what's really absurd is that Apple might have thought they needed to do this because patent law has gone right off the rails. In no small part to companies like Apple patenting stupid shit like this.
Oh, I seem to have slipped into obscenity myself... Maybe I was wrong about that.