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Nice article about the wheel on the iPod... Pitty that B&O didn't patent it...
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016910/apples-inspiration-for-the-ipod-bang-olufsen-not-dieter-rams
Nice article. When you have $100,000,000,000 + in the bank, copyrights and patents are hurdles, not roadblocks.
B&O used a wheel even before that on the Master Control Panel ( http://www.lifestyle-av.co.uk/range_info.asp?range_id=48 ). But they were not used for navigation, but used to recreate a "analog" way of controlling the volume, bass, treble.
The Beocom 6000's wheel is indeed navigational.
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PhilLondon: B&O used a wheel even before that on the Master Control Panel ( http://www.lifestyle-av.co.uk/range_info.asp?range_id=48 ). But they were not used for navigation, but used to recreate a "analog" way of controlling the volume, bass, treble. The Beocom 6000's wheel is indeed navigational.
It is also mentioned in the article that B&O used a wheel on the Beomaster 6000 back in 1974. (Though it was mechanical, and only for tuning)
symmes: Nice article. When you have $100,000,000,000 + in the bank, copyrights and patents are hurdles, not roadblocks.
Quite right. But it would have been nice for B&O to get just a fraction of those $$$ in license...
Question is :
who invented the wheel?
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Millemissen: Question is : who invented the wheel? MM
Sometimes a wheel is not just a wheel...
There are thousands of examples of new versions of things that already has been invented that has been patented. As long as some inventors can come up with new ideas - new ways of using it - combine it with other technologies etc.
It's not only the wheel that Apple did use as 'inspiration'; how about the extensive use of aluminium in their products? That is a long time cornerstone of B&O productdesign. Surprised me that nobody did see these obvious relationships earlier.
Apple is in the same 'niche' position as B&O; both companies are the only real minimalist modern design producers of consumer electronics in the world to be taken seriously.
Unless you come up with a new material, as "Liquidmetal" for example, you can't patent use of a specific material, i.e. B&O's use of aluminum in its products.
What about the guy who invented this wheel: Should B&O have payed him patent money???
Too long to list....
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