| Wednesday, August 8, 2007 |
23:56 - This ain't Paste picante sauce
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/09/fake-iphone-cut-and-paste-demo-loves-you/
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So someone comes up with a way that Apple could implement copy-and-paste on the iPhone. And rather than just describe it in text, he makes a mockup video of it in action, looking as professional as any Apple tutorial video.
And rather than just leave it at that, said person gets "John Appleseed" of said tutorial videos to introduce the videos. ...Well, sort of. Not really. Very very creepily.
Eeugh.
—Anyway. As Chris (who sent me the link) notes: "I wonder if someone inside Apple is going 'Oh, crap. I was just coding that, too... now we can't use it.'"
Disney and other studios always approached that problem by refusing to read unsolicited submissions of script ideas, and sending them back unopened; it's the only way they could legally preserve their plausible deniability if they already happened to be working on an idea similar to something some fan-script writer came up with. But what does Apple do in the age of YouTube?
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Brian Tiemann
