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He has no driver's license, so he's happy to take the bus. No credit cards, either, so he deals only in cash. He travels without a suitcase, which means he washes his clothes in hotel rooms.
He has almost nothing, in fact, but a name – and a past as a war hero and former MP mustered out.
"How many," he rhetorically asks a beautiful lawyer (played by Rosamund Pike), "would live their lives like me?"
In the movies, that is, which is why Tom Cruise hereby begins Lee Child's Jack Reacher series (now 17 books in) on screens, with an adaptation of Child's "One Shot."
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Cruise isn't small, but he's smallish – 5 feet 7 inches or 5 feet 8 inches (I'm 5 feet 6 inches, and I've been in interview rooms with him twice and stood next to him; I'm guessing he's two inches taller). In Child's novels, Jack Reacher is a 6-foot-5-inch muscular behemoth. In Cruise's movie, he's the movie version of Tom Cruise – a well-muscled, 50-year-old man who drives muscle cars like a NASCAR champ and dispatches five marauding street thugs with his bare hands in less time than it takes local TV weathermen to tell you if snow is on the way.
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Bringing "Jack Reacher" to the screen – it's listed up front as a "Tom Cruise Picture" – with cool, ultra-smart writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (an Oscar winner for writing "The Usual Suspects") was a very canny career move in a movie life that's been full of them.
Frankly, I could care less whether Child's hero in the novels is the size of King Kong and can bench press Cleveland. Being a tenured movie star covers a lot of ground in the world of instant mythology, and this is, frankly, one of Cruise's more creditable forays into action movies.
His curse – and he's always been aware of it himself – is his eternal boyishness. This is Cruise doing a Steve McQueen role, without the twinkly, streetwise sense of humor, of course, but terse, laconic and enigmatic á la good old McQueen (height: 5 feet 9½ inches). With so few lines to say and so few opportunities to emote, Cruise's boyishness is nicely minimalized, leaving the movies with a new action thug "good guy" whose virtue is strictly relative compared with the monsters and dummkopfs he's trying to stop cold.
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McQuarrie is a fellow apparently on Cruise retainer (he wrote "Valkyrie" and one of Cruise's "Mission: Impossible" babies.)
The movie abounds with good lines and the fine little touches that distinguish rough-and-tough genre films: Robert Duvall, as a shooting range proprietor sticking bullets into his ears to muffle the noise, for instance. A nice, larger trick is the great film director Werner Herzog taking the role of the villain-in-chief with a milky blue left eye and missing fingers that he supposedly chewed off while imprisoned in Russia.
McQuarrie knows his business. The film is about a sniper incident that kills five and that seems to have been perpetrated by one guy until Jack gets on the case. That opening incident is filmed in almost direct tribute to the masterful opening of Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry." The deliberately old-fashioned pseudo-1970s thriller music by Joe Kraemer (who is from Buffalo) reinforces that very smartly, as, indeed, it does all through the movie.
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I don't know that I'd want to jump on any couches about "Jack Reacher," but it's one of the best ways in a long while that one of our more weirdly durable movie stars has concocted to remain durable. If this is the beginning of a Cruise franchise, let's see more.
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10+ years of designing games in public
Afraid someone will steal your idea?
I'm a board game designer. It's a fun, creative, scary job and worlds away from my former career in corporate advertising. In both fields, there is a high value placed on ideas, especially "new" ideas. No one wants to get scooped. Be it an ad campaign or a board game, you want to be the first out the door with it.
So it may seem odd that I've spent ten years blogging my game design process. Every one of my harebrained concepts and fully-formed prototypes go up live, viewable by everyone.
The question I get most often is: "Aren't you afraid someone will steal your idea?"
To those who ask, the real thing I hear you saying is: "I'd be afraid of someone stealing my idea."
I get it! You're really proud of your new game mechanic or your original theme or some other thing about your precious IP that is gonna be worth bajillions. Pride in your work is good! It keeps you going in the dark times when you wonder whether you'd be better off with some other hobby, like tortilla golf.
But that pride can also give you some weird expectations, like that anyone else cares nearly as much about your idea as you do. That's not meant as an insult against your idea, it's just a necessity of the creative field. If anyone cares as much about your game idea as you do, they'd already be spending the late nights and long hours it takes to playtest, develop, cry, revise, cry, and playtest again until the idea is a proper game.
Wait, you are putting in those long hours, right? Please don't tell me you're worried about someone stealing your idea before you've put in that development time. Please don't tell me you've researched patents, copyrights, NDAs, and trademarks before you've even tried playtesting. Please don't tell me you're only playtesting with people closest to you, who therefore have a vested interest in not breaking your heart. You're not doing all these things, right? Of course not, that would be foolish. That paranoia is just an excuse not to do the work.
Here are a few things I've learned from years of designing games in public. I hope some of these observations are relevant in your own creative field.
The truth about ideas
Ideas aren't that special.
Seriously, a cool idea isn't a game in and of itself. Antoine Bauza was recently awarded the Game of the Year award at the Essen game festival in Germany. He won it for the tiny cooperative card game Hanabit, in which players hold their cards backwards and rely on each other to get accurate information about their own hands. Now, he didn't just roll up and say, "Hey, I want to make a game where you hold your cards backwards and have to work together!" and get the Spiel de Jahres handed to him. No, there was a ton of work and two separate publications before Hanabi got recognized for its brilliance and became a commercial hit.
Ideas don't reveal emergence.
Even if your idea is 100% original, the idea alone isn't valuable, it's the work of revealing emergent properties that makes the idea valuable. Taking Bauza's Hanabi example again: For a game that elegant, you know there was a lot of time put into every design decision. With so few mechanics, everything becomes that much more important. How many suits should be in the deck? How many cards of each rank should be in the deck? What's an average score across one hundred games? How do people communicate with each other in play? None of these questions get answered unless the "idea" becomes a reality at the table. There are uncountable emergent properties that just don't reveal themselves until you playtest.
Your ideas are stolen... from someone else.
I've got a closet full of unfinished ideas that never made the final cut for whatever reason. Ideas everywhere! Seriously, here, have some, I have too many. We've all got them, and chances are that not one of them is at all original. Not mine, probably not yours. We can't escape the design milieu of our times, we can only respond to it, iterate it. We are adrift on the flow of style, whether we realize it or not. A simple example: Try thinking of a new chess piece. Go ahead, maybe it moves like a bishop, but limited to two spaces? Maybe it moves like a King, but two spaces if it moves forward, and can only capture diagonally? Okay, now take a look at the hundreds of chess pieces out there and see if you can find some empty space left to explore. Is this sobering? Yes. Is it discouraging? Hell no.
Your idea alone is not a game.
Let's get zen for a bit. If a game goes unplayed, is it still a game? Is it only a game while being played? These are the questions I have for you if you're more concerned about jealously guarding your precioussss instead of actually putting it in front of as many people as possible. Your idea is not a game. Only your game is a game. Even then, it's only a game if people are playing it. That means you have to actually make prototypes, write rules, and face the social awkwardness of asking strangers to play this thing with the added caveat that it may not even be fun. That is what will make your idea valuable. And guess what? When the game is fun, the victory will be so much sweeter.
Value takes a while. A long while.
All that to say... No, I'm not worried about someone stealing my ideas. Exactly the opposite, in fact. I wouldn't be here if I wasn't so open and public about my design process. I've been doing this in public for over a decade now. But when I started? Yeah, I was worried about it.
It started in 1999ish when I designed a fan-made World of Darkness RPG about sentient zombies, called Zombie: the Coil. There was a gap in the WoD mythos that I thought I could fill. And boy, did I fill it with every contrived faction, inconsistent mechanic, punk-rock posturing, and gothic whininess that I thought a proper RPG was supposed to have. I just copied the structures from existing White Wolf properties of the time and wrote within those constraints and posted the results on my crap website.
Then I got worried about White Wolf stealing my idea. I heard they were releasing Hunter: the Reckoning and that it featured zombies. Oh no, zombies in the World of Darkness? Crap! All my writing was for naught! Nevermind that I didn't even try properly pitching it to White Wolf in the first place. Can you imagine the naive audacity? I crib wholesale from White Wolf's books and then I get worried about them looking at my stuff? Get it together, teen Daniel. Zombie: the Coil sucks. But, keep at it, you'll find your design mode in about 15 years. (Also, teen Daniel, stop wearing a trench coat in Florida. You look like an idiot.) Needless to say, White Wolf did just fine for itself in the 90s without my tiny contribution. But working through that fear, just getting comfortable showing my work to other people and holding it up for critique: that was valuable. And, then I went on to design plenty more rubbish games.
No genius. No mystique. Only work.
Don't buy into the genius mystique. It is a mirage. Maybe there are geniuses out there, but you can't go assuming that you're one. That's like living as if you're going to win the lottery on a regular basis. No, the value comes from the work and no one's going to do more of it than you. Buy a pizza for your playtesters. Agonize over game terms. Completely scrap three prototypes in a row and start over again. That is the craft, the work, of game design. So get back to it!
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Thanks for helping us get a grip on this issue which I see is a common one in the online world. I find the same fear of theft working in the online art world where almost every artist has threatening copyright notices, huge destructive watermarks, and the annoying right-click menu disabling javascript. The funniest thing about it all is the artwork they're vigorously trying to protect isn't worth stealing; it's all some sort of fantasy in their head, or the "genius" thing that you've suggested.
Wish you would research how out of control some of the things have gotten.. They are using your ideas to interface with gov. computers local computers an cell phones to steal disability money , steal bank money an to even steal money fro pnone services. To inlighten you more check out research on high frequencies an the implications for sybliminal messaging as well as effects on the human brain // moods /./ ECT... tjhese have all been inturgrated with programs snatch from your system,,, help us put a stop to it.... WE THE PEAPLE FOR THE PEAPLE FOR WE ALL ARE THE PEAPLE>>>> Thank-you
This is the best piece of advice I have read in a long time. Working in a startup environment I always get this kind of questions and I always explain to people that I believe an idea is worthless without research and development... now I have a great post to hand out :) Nice work, love your games!
Oh man, this is so confrontational! :)
Yes, I worried about NDA's, copyrights etc. Being a bit further down the process now; I understand exactly what you mean.
It's very reassuring to read from someone with a successful experience that I can actually stop worrying about someone "stealing" "my" idea (which I think deep down I knew already...)
I'm eager to further develop my idea now! :)
Thank you...
I think you've perfectly articulated a feeling I've struggled with putting to words for quite some time in my creative life.
It's laughable how much "ideas" are similarly viewed/valued in the photography world. In the end, it's all about doing.
Thank you!
So why do you think all major companies develop their products in secret? Why would Apple have a paranoid secrecy policy if ideas aren't worth it and only execution counts? Why are patents the big thing in industry? Is Rovio developing their games in the open? Or is this advice and "wisdom" only applicable to single individuals whose ideas are necessarily worth nothing -until execution- according to you and only if they become a company are then "allowed" to keep their ideas in secret?
When a company is developing in secret, what they're worried about "first mover advantage". It's a concept that is hotly debated in business schools. And certainly from a game theoretic point of view, it's a valid strategy. But you have to take into account what you're giving up by building in secret, not just that you gain first mover advantage.
This author is trying to point out disadvantages to developing in secret, while downplaying first mover advantage. And I think they're all valid points. Especially as you point out single individuals might benefit most from the author's points. I'd agree that an individual who worries about first mover advantage such that they stop moving, has no advantage at all. A large company can pay for feedback about their products while keeping them largely secret. Not so for an individual, which means they end up sitting on an unrealizable idea since they can't get any of the feedback necessary to make a good product.
The open source development model is the opposite of this. The development happens in the open. Transparently. You can see the innovations happening almost real-time. No secrets. Ideas worth stealing I guess, but better if you jump in and contribute.
IMHO, the whole "first mover" concept is a myth, and here's why I believe this way.
The "first mover" may have a perfectly valid idea, but no effin' idea how to really implement it. The PDA craze back in the 80's and 90's is a perfect example. Everyone and their aunt's brother-in-law tried to put out a PDA, and they all tanked, until Palm finally put together a paradigm that actually clicked with the marketplace. 12" optical "movie" disks are another example: Great idea, suck implementation.
Second, (in a sense a restatement of the first point), just because someone has an idea, doesn't mean you can't improve on it - or make it your own - in some unique way.
As an example, I have a (small) computer consulting business and my target audience is the micro-business niche. These are people who desperately need competent IT help, but can't afford the 200 bazillion dollar per hour rate that others charge.
You wanna "steal" my idea, go for it! The pay stinks, the hours stink, but when you see a small healthcare business get put under the Medicare audit microscope - and pass! - the gratification is priceless.
So go ahead and steal my idea. Give me your address while you're at it so I can send you a case of Zantac and some Prozac samples.
What say ye?
Jim (JR)
I like the following part:
"Your ideas are stolen... from someone else."
Two quotations immediately pops to mind:
"Freely you have received; freely give." Said by Jesus in gospel of Matthew 10:8.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." By Isaac Newton.
Everything we discover today is built on top someone elses discoveries. This has been the case through history and we should acknowledge it and be humble before this fact.
Good One.
the last part of it got me back! Thanks!
I'm completely new (but have an idea!) that will require utilizing contract programmers through O-desk or Elance. Do I not need an NDA with the company I choose?
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You gave me my inspiration for the day, thank you sir.
One question though: how would you react if someone actually made a game based on an idea you showed on your blog?
Thanks! Every paragraph of this column was helpful for me.
Trained as a musician, I'd say most of those thoughts resonate; music shares with game design the property that it isn't really what it is until the real-time execution involving the ultimate consumer. It also shares with game design the property that neither is absolutely necessary to the consumer at any particular point in time. (Some of us NEVER play computer-hosted games and rarely play the old-fashioned kind. Really.) Ideas do get recycled, revised, reused. That's fact, that's history.
It's also history that the guy who invented the windshield wiper intermittent delay device saw a lot of money going to others for his realized idea before he saw enough to notice himself, and then only after legal action.
It's common sense to consider where the value is in an idea, whether it's primarily in the use (methods of work), the finished product (quality of execution), uniqueness, marketing, or whatever. If you think of something that would help Apple sell 500K more Macbooks this year, that has value to Apple, not to you. If you make a better, more durable tractor, a great part of the value may be durability - can you get paid for that? If you make a better hand soap, there's not much durability - and that's potentially money in your pocket - unless someone else can convince consumers theirs is "better", whether or not true. And some ideas are best given away, while others need to be mothered and nurtured to fruition in a quiet womb-like space.
Love this post, Daniel. "The idea alone is not a game." Yep! The idea alone is also not a creative product for any kind of working creative. Already referencing this post for some of our creative clients who are either feeling impostor syndrome about their ideas or feeling hesitant to put the inner workings of their ideas out there.


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also uses roughly 5% of the electricity needed to run a comparable mobile hard
drive. It is also completely silent and free of moving parts.
The commercialization of Samsung's 32GB
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quote: And as for the $960 I think you're quoting the price of the memory needed for I-RAM drive reviewed on anandtech, once again this is NAND Flash Memory not DRRAM...
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quote: Anandtech actually had a similar benchmark test for Gigabyte's Flash-PCI card which used older DDR memory to make one static partition.
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My girlfriend lovingly has made me lots of rice pudding and I've lovingly heated up canned soup and I've begrudgingly ate both for the last three days after getting two wisdom teeth removed three days ago. Honestly, it hasn't been that terrible because I only had two removed (instead of all four), but it's still very uncomfortable. Just to give all you folks who have never experienced this a taste of what you can expect… read the time line for the last three days.
10:15am: I go under. The process was painless… they stuck an IV into my left arm right into my vein, the same vein I use to donate my blood, and it's quite a fatty so there aren't any problems there. I try to stay conscious as long as I can so I can fully feel like what it's like to go under since it's my first time. They put a pulse thing on my finger, strap on blood pressure stuff to my right arm, and the oral surgeon tells me to pick out a nice dream. I pick the nice one about how my girlfriend and I went on a cruise to the West Caribbean a few years ago. Then I pick out the one with the other girlfriend (aaaah just kidding). I would've thought of sugar-plum fairies but I have no idea what they look like. They strap on a few other things, put some stuff on my face, and I feel the same exact sensation I felt when I (allegedly) puked all over a mall in Cancun my freshman year. Everything gets all bright and I black out.
10:xxam: I'm half awake somehow, feeling the dentist drilling apart the left tooth and pulling out the pieces. It doesn't hurt and I know what's going on so I don't freak out or anything. I remember my friend said this happened to him so I just sort of pretend everything's cool. I open my eyes, look at the surgeon, look around, wonder if he cares that my eyes are open, and the next thing I know we're done.
10:45am: I'm sitting in a chair waiting for my girlfriend to come back with two pieces of gauze in my mouth that hurt like hell. The nurse hands me two containers of pills, amoxicillin and vicodin, and tells me not to spit. I promptly spit out blood into the toilet and she scolds me. My girlfriend comes back and we drive home. I know why they say not to drive because I feel ridiculously drunk, like twelve beers in two hours type drunk, except it's light out (not that that's never happened before) and it's before noon (also, not like that's not happened before, I did attend 4+ years of higher education after all).
11am: I eat the pills, lie in bed, PTFO.
6pm: Girlfriend wakes me up, I eat more pills and some rice pudding. It's good since I haven't eaten since 6pm the day before (rules of anesthesia, no eating). It's also good because it's the first time I've had it in about ten years.
+1 day, 7am: I wake up for work feeling pretty good. My girlfriend is apprehensive about me driving to work since the rule is no driving within 24 hours but I feel good.
+1 day, 8am: I sit at work, groggy from the vicodin, the world is a blur around me. I feel absolutely and entirely… useless.
+1 day, 10am: I realize I can't do anything and I'd be better off sleeping. I manage the drive home without incident. I sleep for many many hours.
+1 day, 5:59pm: At some point my girlfriend asks me if I asked for my two wisdom teeth. I mention to her that I was on drugs and was thinking about how I was going to stop the Joker and the Penguin from destroying Gotham tonight, especially if I can't drive the Batmobile for 24 hours. She realizes that I'm on drugs and thus not in the full frame of mind to actually ask for my teeth back, let alone realize I'm not Batman.
+1 day, 6pm: I've just slept 8 hours a mere 2 hours after sleeping like a million hours. I eat some more rice pudding, which is still tasty, and soup but girlfriend is nowhere to be found. I realize she works 2nd shift so she's doing crazy stuff in a biosuit. I think I fiddle around online for a few hours, play cards online, then pass out at around 11pm. Somewhere in there I eat ice cream.
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Buffalo Bills coach Chan Gailey was stumped last week when he was asked where his team's secondary would be without rookie cornerback Stephon Gilmore.
"I have no clue," Gailey said. "I don't know how to answer that question, to be honest with you."
One suggested answer: In a world of hurt.
Gilmore has been a starter seemingly from the moment the Bills made him the 10th overall pick in April's draft out of South Carolina. He's played basically every meaningful snap of the season, 97 percent overall, and in recent weeks has been tasked with guarding the opposition's No. 1 receiver.
That's a change from the start of the season, when the Bills asked their corners to play "halves," guarding one half of the field regardless of who's lined up there.
"He's playing very well. He's doing a good job. He's become a better player, to me, each week," Gailey said. "He's becoming more knowledgeable. He's understanding the game and what he's got to get done."
Gilmore lobbied the Bills' defensive staff for the chance to guard the other team's best receiver.
"That's what type of player I want to be. I want to guard their best receiver and make him work for everything he can get," Gilmore said.
That job started in Houston against the Texans' Andre Johnson, after left cornerback Aaron Williams was hurt. Gilmore lined up on Brandon Lloyd in New England in Week 10, then checked Miami's Brian Hartline on Thursday night.
"I think I had to get a little bit more comfortable out there on the field. Now that I feel comfortable, I feel like pretty much if I study the receiver, I can guard whoever they want me to," Gilmore said. "I want to do whatever I can to help the team out, so if that's shutting down their No. 1 receiver or their go-to guy, I mean, that's my job."
Williams, who's still sidelined by the knee injury suffered against the Texans, isn't a lock to regain the starting position when he does return, because Leodis McKelvin has played well in his place.
"He's had a couple issues with penalties here or there, but for the most part he's really been on top of his game out there at corner," Gailey said of McKelvin.
"It's been fun to watch to be honest with you. He's done a good job. ... When Aaron gets back, I don't know exactly what's going to happen."
Gilmore, though, is still expected to guard the other team's No. 1 when Williams does get back.
"I think a lot of that will still continue," Gailey said. "
Gilmore hasn't given up a passing touchdown since Week Five in San Francisco. But that's not to say he's been perfect. He's particularly struggled at times with double moves.
"Sometimes you get your eyes in the backfield. You've got to pick and choose the times to make that decision," he said.
"When I'm guarding a receiver, I've got to break to him, almost to the last second. Sometimes in college you can get your eyes in the backfield and they'll throw the ball right to you. It's not like that. You've got to keep your eyes on the receiver. I'm learning still. Me keeping my eyes on his hips, so whenever he breaks, I'm breaking toward him."
Gilmore plays a physical brand of football, sometimes too much so.
He's been flagged for seven penalties, including three in a Week 10 loss at New England, one of which was a questionable pass interference in the end zone that set the Patriots up for an easy touchdown.
He's also still looking for his first career interception.
"It's going to come. I'm not really stressing about it," he said. "I'm making plays, so being physical, it's going to come."
Gilmore forced a fumble Thursday against the Dolphins when he stripped Hartline. Bills safety Jairus Byrd recovered, setting up a Buffalo field goal.
"I definitely feel like I adjusted. It feels like college again," Gilmore said. "I'm out here playing, having fun, doing what I've been doing my whole life."
Now 10 games into his rookie season, Gailey said that experience is starting to show.
He's closer to being a second-year player than he is a first-year player," the coach said. "Those guys [Gilmore and second-round pick Cordy Glenn] are becoming more and more mature as they play and are learning every week."
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- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 generous tbsp flour
- 1 1/4 cup soy milk
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- pinch nutmeg
- salt and white pepper to taste
1. Steam asparagus while you are making the crepes. My original vision was to make smaller crepes so the asparagus would stick out of the ends. So, whatever you want. Rinse asparagus in very cold water to stop the cooking and set aside.
2. Heat oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour and cook for a few mins, whisking constantly. Slowly whisk in soy milk and bring to bubbling. Season to taste and remove from heat.
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Samsung Emails Bolster Apple's "Copying" Claims, But Show Innovation Too
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From 2008 to 2010 Samsung was content to copy, but by 2011 it wanted to beat Apple
Apple, Inc.'s (
) lawyers have been busy sifting through Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (
) emails -- well the ones that
weren't destroyed
, at least -- searching for hints that could steer the jury into the perception that Samsung was "copying" Apple's patented iPhone/iPad features and designs.
I. Context When Considering Apple v. Samsung
Overarching questions hover over the case -- for example, whether Apple's patents on seemingly trivial software features should be valid (this approach is not used by video game or web designers, who freely imitate each other to enhance their product, and has not harmed competition or industry evolution).
U.S. Patent Law forbids patenting of abstract ideas, so it becomes a question of whether
simple animations are patentable
. Likewise, many of the animations (e.g. the "bounce animation") mimic nature (in that case, transitive responses) so the question is whether the graphical flourish is non-patentable because it's animation/imitation of a natural phenomenon.
Also, questions surround whether a company should be able to patent a "minimalist" tablet/smartphone design. Apple's design patents
U.S. Design Patent No. D618,677
, and
have little accompanying text, so it is Apple's lawyers' interpretation that they claim the patent grants a monopoly on "minimalist", clean designs. That is a highly questionable interpretation.
However, Apple does do a good job via documents it dug up from Samsung's surrendered data dumps in establishing that circa-2010 Samsung was clearly fixated on copying Apple's hardware, design, and software. The documents also indicate a shift in 2011, where Samsung's discussion changes from being
Apple to trying to
In a way this is good for each company. While the wealth of evidence supporting copying may lead to infringement findings, unless Apple's patents are invalidated, the evidence which supports Samsung is now no longer interested in merely being "like Apple" may protect its more recent products from sales bans.
Let's look at how
the evidence
[PDF] supports that general picture.
II. Evidence Points to Clear Copying
The document trail begins in 2010 when Samsung was working on its first major Android hit -- the Galaxy S -- and was working to get serious in the tablet market with a 10-inch direct competitor to the iPad.
In an email from Samsung design leader Hyesun "Sunny" Kim, concern is expressed that Samsung is studying Nokia Oyj. (
) to carefully, but has missed the driver of the state of the art -- Apple.
Writes Kim (p.173), "All this time we've been paying all our attention to Nokia, and concentrated our efforts on things like Folder, Bar, Slide, yet when our UX is compared to the unexpected competitor Apple's iPhone, the difference is truly that of Heaven and Earth. It's a crisis of design."
"[Apple's v. Samsung's UI] difference... is truly Heaven and Earth"
--Samsung design manager
Samsung's slides broke down the iPhone's assets (pg. 107), even using the word "copy" at some points (but only in reference to copying the hardware of the iPhone).
(emphasis on text added, text enlarged)
An earlier Dec. 2008 breakdown (pg. 148) carefully studied the iPhone, discussing keys to its success. One of three drivers was the phone's "whimsical" character, and top on its list of attributes in that category was "list bounce". Coincidentally Samsung added list bounce to its only user interface, which Apple claims infringes on its patent on the feature.
The slide notes that the iPhone has extra "sensors" that were non-standard at the time (such as accelerometers, gyroscopes) and transition effects that made it "just plain cool".
"[The iPhone is] just plain cool"
--Samsung market research
A second slide breaks down the design of the iPhone emphasis that it uses "few buttons", has a "minimal" design, and is "screen-centric". The overall feeling from the slides is that Samsung was carefully studying what made the iPhone tick and making a check list of features to add to its own product -- precisely the impression Apple's lawyers want to convey.
Samsung even looked for clues to Apple's marketing strategy. For example they analyze (p. 31) a Best Buy Comp., Inc. (
) training partnership, commenting that Apple compensates for the "deficiency of BBY e-learning system" with a program that bribes employees with free accessories to develop enthusiasm and products about Apple's products, making sales people pitch them harder and more effectively than other gadget-makers' designs.
A slide showing Samsung's first Android smartphone, the I7500 indicated that Samsung was concerned about the apps screen appearing to blatantly like it was imitating Apple's home screen. The early UI draft closely copied the iPhone, but the slide complained that the icon "container" (the layout) was "too iPhone like".
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The design was changed to a less similar design. But with the Galaxy S, the apps screen (not to be confused with the home screen) back-tracked and Samsung decided to imitate Apple after all.
Samsung considered copying the iPhone's interface (far left) with the I7500 (center left), but it ultimately rejected that idea, making the final design (center right) was designed substantially different from Apple's. The Galaxy S (far right), however, returned Samsung's UI to a closer copy of Apple's.
In a slide deck from Apple 2009 dubbed "UX Exploration study" (p. 179), Samsung market researchers suggested copying Apple's double-tap to zoom feature, commenting, "The UX of the iPhone can be used as a design benchmark."
"The [UI] of the iPhone can be... a design benchmark."
--Samsung market research
Perhaps its not surprising that the phone drew comparisons at Google Inc.'s (
) May 2010 Google I/O event. Samsung managers in emails (p. 176-177) passed around enthusiastic comments from developers, which included commentary on how much Galaxy S looked and felt like the iPhone.
Among the comments shared:
The menu looks just like iPhone. But I like it cause it looks familiar to me."
Galaxy S looks very similar to iPhone.
Likewise, others were taking note of similarities between Samsung's second major tablet release (dubbed P3 in the court filings), the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Google expressed concern (p. 205) that the Tab looked "too similar to Apple". Google ordered Samsung to "make it noticeably different, starting with the front side."
"Since [the Tab 10.1] is too similar to Apple, make it noticeably different"
--Google to Apple
The Galaxy S launched
in June 2010
. Apple was not happy. It
filed suit a 10 months later
in April 2011. The suit may have been precipitated by failed negotiations in which Apple warned Samsung to stay away from the tablet market.
Samsung refused to back down, launching the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in June 2011. It is unclear whether Google's request differentiation from the iPad was included in that design, as the design Google was talking about being "too similar to Apple['s iPad]" was never pictured.
III. From Imitation to Originality
In an ideal world Apple would love to show that Samsung is still copying its handsets and tablets. But visually that does not appear to be the case.
Likewise the court documents, perhaps inadvertently, paint a picture that damages Apple's claim that Samsung continued to copy. In fact, they show the company in 2011 transitioned from looking to catch up with Apple in terms of product, to looking to "beat" Apple and "differentiate" its products past the iPhone.
Samsung called (p. 123) its campaign "S>A" (it commonly referred to Apple as (company) "A" throughout the slide decks) -- Samsung > Apple. In another deck (p. 113), dated Sept. 2011, Samsung writes, "Goal of next year -- BEAT APPLE". Humorously it writes that it is "lacking confidence" in that plan.
"Goal of next year -- BEAT APPLE"
--Samsung, Sept. 2011
The company writes that keys to beating Apple include LTE modems, larger screens, and "aggressive pricing".
The company expressed concern that the Galaxy S III must be a "differentiated device" (versus the iPhone), but that it "currently may not be".
Again this paints a picture of a company who has learned via emulation, but is now looking to take things to the next level, going from copying to creation.
In a "top secret" Feb. 2012 document (pg. 165) Samsung brags, "U.S. Market Becoming a Two Horse Race Between Apple and Samsung". Samsung appeared to relish knocking its fellow Android smartphone maker HTC Corp. (
) down a peg, even though its OEM market share still lagged behind Apple's in the U.S. market.
Growing in confidence, Samsung expressed frustration that carrier partner AT&T, Inc. (
) "opposed
'Fan Boy' ads
", a series of commercials mocking Apple users' ritualistic launch lineups. Samsung writes that the opposition prevented it from fully spending on the campaign.
By 2011 Samsung was no longer looking to copy Apple. [Image Source: Samsung]
These documents all point to a new Samsung, a Samsung who increasingly felt that it could build its own UI and hardware that were better than Apple's. The slides foreshadowed Samsung's recent dramatic pass of Apple in global smartphone sales.
IV. Is Copying a Crime?
Arguably, copying Apple may have elevated Samsung slightly, but there's three major questions to answer -- was it illegal, if so did it continue, and lastly
it have been illegal?
The answer to the former question may be technically "yes", but that could change if the U.S. looks carefully at the prior art in software. Many of Apple's "innovations" (e.g. the bounce effect) were found to be
invalid due to prior art
in other regions, such as the UK. It is not unfathomable that Samsung could find a sympathetic U.S. court to give it a fair shot at validation as well.
Second, the case highlights a glaring flaw of our intellectual property system, in that by barring imitation, evolution is discouraged.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
The Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab 10.1 clearly copied aspects of the iPhone and iPad. But they also had elements that were clearly their own. In other words they weren't exact copies. And they eventually led to innovative new designs -- Samsung clearly
has not
continued to copy Apple to as great a degree.
One potential issue -- and which esteemed intellectual property experts like
Judge Richard A. Posner
have asserted
-- is that there is an increasing amount of patenting of non-novel (not in the legal sense of the word, but in the philosophical context), simple ideas such that in some niches nearly every simple idea becomes patented.
Thus because of an irrational fear that casual imitation will lead to "cloning" (exact copies), the system is essentially preventing the learning and borrowing of ideas, reducing each individual or company to beating rocks together in a cave, trying to find a new way to start a fire because the obvious one has already been patented.
Humans learn from imitation. Apple itself imitated Google's notifications menu in iOS -- a key innovation of Google's platform.
The inalienable fact is that human's copy and learn (some) ideas from imitation, be they humans at Samsung or at Apple. Thus Samsung's greatest crime on the device market might be its humanity.
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Thank you for clearing up how the comments system works! I had no idea!
Ok seriously now, it is clear why I got rated 5 for this comment:
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What value did these comments add? Why did I get a zero in this comment (was rated 4 initially, then the next day went down to zero):
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didn't they add value to the discussion?
Comments are supposed to be rated like you explained, but it isn't done this way. As far as I remember, only funny comments were given 6+; no really valuable comment ever got that deserved +6, if I remember correctly. Comments are evaluated according to users's beliefs. Want to check that statement? Check any debate between religion and atheism, and refresh the debate every few minutes, to see all the comments supporting religion going up, and contradictory comments going down. Refresh again later, and see the ratings go in the other direction.
I've been here long enough to know how things go. I was here when this site was a part of anandtech.com. I was here when Kristopher Kubicki used to write news (If you are reading this, Kristopher, I really miss your articles and the quality of news before). Things weren't that way back then.
With all seriousness, and I am sorry to say it, Jason Mick was, and still is, in my opinion, the worst writer in dailytech's history. I am not the only one to think so, there are others who think so too. A few readers declared they'll find other tech news sites if the quality doesn't return to where it was, and were true to their word. Go read some of his older articles, to know how many negative comments there were about his articles. I'm glad he has improved a lot, and I mean A LOT. His articles used to contain all sorts of silly grammar and spelling mistakes (do you realize how painful this is for me, finding mistakes everywhere, considering that I work in quality assurance and control? and yet I kept my mouth shut, hoping he'll improve, which he did), and sometimes unverified sources or even occasionally wrong information misunderstood from the source.
It's not like I don't complement good writing when I see it. Here:
That was when the site was at its worst point. They got a new news writer, and her articles were and still are excellent till today.
Is my first post related to the article? of course it is. Read it carefully, and you'll find that it is precise and accurate. Writing so many words is a characteristic of a school paper/research, a documentary, or maybe an encyclopedia. But who does that for news? even if you are writing news where some history is necessary, it should be brief. This is not something he is willing to work on, like typos and grammar mistakes; his first articles were reasonable in regards to length. This is something he is doing intentionally, while probably thinking the more the merrier!
As for the second post, it makes sense to get a -1. But see, the thing is, I have a mild case of OCD, so I kept refreshing the page to see how things go with my post. At some point, in less than a minute, the rating changed from 2 to -1. Thinking about it, the only person that can give +6 is the editor. Could it be possible that the editor have the privilege to give a -1? Is it possible that the editor is the one who gave me -1? It is possible. That is why I wrote the second post. I wanted to check my hypothesis. Unfortunately I forgot that replying to a -1 comment automatically grants new comments a 1.
To sum up, I didn't mean to be negative, I really wanted him to look into his style of writing. Also, I don't think you have a good idea of how the comments system is actually (not ideally) being used/abused.
How about this comment for being insightful? Give it time, and let's see how it will be rated, shall we?
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Dear Mk4ever
Why do your comments have to be such long essays???
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Well I'm sorry, as it was meant for someone else.
But see, at least I included a summary in the end, unlike some other essays ;)
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Thanks, i really needed the E-Peen story.
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Two (2) Copies of Sealed Bids for: Installation of operable windows and vents, at Harvey Clarke Elementary School will be received by Doris Inkley, Administrative Assistant Forest Grove School District, 1728 Main St., Forest Grove, OR 97116 on February 6, 2013 prior to 1pm and Bids will be opened at that time. Bids received after Bid Closing will not be considered. Sub-Tier bids if applicable are due at 2pm February 6, 2013.
Project scope: Installation of replacement windows with operable vents at Harvey Clarke Elementary School. To meet district wide systems window compatibility, and district window standards the Forest Grove School District requires the windows and operable vents and all other associated work are to be Arcadia T200 Thermal Heavy Commercial Awning and Hopper Windows 2- inch APC-HC70 Grade with interior screens.
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