Highly illegal: Apple agrees to pay royalties for plagiarised clock design - Polidicks

[QUOTE=jaykray;38013904]Clocks are dying out anyway. No one needs to wear a watch anymore because of smartphones and other portable gadgets. Everything tells the time on it now.[/QUOTE] Noooooo!

[QUOTE=jaykray;38013904]Clocks are dying out anyway. No one needs to wear a watch anymore because of smartphones and other portable gadgets. Everything tells the time on it now.[/QUOTE] I was actually just shopping for a nice watch. I find watches more attractive. Plus it may become a status symbol again now that smart phones are everyones "watches".

[QUOTE=Ardosos;38013993]I wear a watch because I don't have a smartphone.[/QUOTE] Same here. It kind of tickles me that occasionally kids stop me in school to ask "how do you tell time without a phone"? I'll tell you the secret. [I]Watch[/I] closely.

[QUOTE=lavacano;38015854]what the hell could you do to cheat on a test with a watch[/QUOTE] What could you do to cheat on a bottle of drink that contains a liquid that isn't water? [editline]13th October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=don818;38016260]I was actually just shopping for a nice watch. I find watches more attractive. Plus it may become a status symbol again now that smart phones are everyones "watches".[/QUOTE] In the same way that vinyl has seen a small resurgence?

[QUOTE=lavacano;38015854]what the hell could you do to cheat on a test with a watch[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android[/url] Soon :v:

[QUOTE=FreakyMe;38016109]it's a mental slide rule that allows you to scroll your focus from 1-12, and 1-60. It assists in most basic functions like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It can speed up your work and improve your accuracy quite a bit, actually. Aside from being a number line from 1 - 12 which is divided into fifths (useful when estimating added and subtracted fractions), it's a circle that is divided into 12 triangles, so it can help when visualizing and calculating geometry and percentages. With a little projection, an analogue clock can be seen as divided into halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and twelfths. 50%, 33%, 25%, 16(~.6)%, and 8% respectively. I've used it in statistics and algebra class when figuring out and keeping track of multiple variables.[/QUOTE] Hey, so... could you... you know... visualize it or something? with pictures and stuff? Would be cool

I find hand watches to be a inconvenience. A accessory that's been obsoleted by a multi-functional device. It's main reason to exist is for pure aesthetic reasons nowadays.

It seems a bit overclocked.

[QUOTE=mac338;38011081]It's a ridiculous thing to have a patent on. It's not like SSB loses money because Apple uses their clock design.[/QUOTE] It's neither like Apple loses money because other phone developers include swipe gestures to unlock their phones or use round edged rectangles as a device style.

[QUOTE=Aphtonites;38011059]Well, at least they've had a taste of their own medicine now.[/QUOTE] It's in no way their own medicine. Apple agreed to pay, and you can be sure it's not exorbitant. If it were their own medicine, they would've been sued, and lost millions because of it.

[QUOTE=lavacano;38015854]what the hell could you do to cheat on a test with a watch[/QUOTE] My 10th grade science teacher told a story of where he had a student who once wrote a few notes onto a small piece of paper, took the faceplate off his watch, and put the piece of paper overtop the display. Screwed the faceplate back on. The teacher didn't figure out until the very end that every time the student went to look at the time on his watch, he was actually looking at notes and cheating on the test.

[QUOTE=jaykray;38014009]I don't think you're allowed watches in a test either, they have a big clock at the front of the room you can look at. Watches can be classy but I don't know why. People paying hundreds if not thousands of pounds for watches does not make sense.[/QUOTE] I've had my watch out on the desk before, and none of the invigilators have ever complained.

[QUOTE=mac338;38011081]It's a ridiculous thing to have a patent on. It's not like SSB loses money because Apple uses their clock design.[/QUOTE] it's sbb not ssb. i know it because im from switzerland