Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

A visual history of Apple patent filings: the brilliant, the bizarre, the just plain bad.

By  |  Monday, December 15, 2008 at 1:19 am

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Filed August 2nd, 2002

What would this slideshow be without a picture of an iPod? This one originated in a patent filed after the first- and second-generation iPods had been released; it seems to show one of those versions, but the next iPod that Apple released was the oddball one that had a row of buttons above the control wheel. The proportions are off in this rendering: No iPod had a screen that small, and if the early ones were quite as chunky as represented here I’ve managed to block it from my memory.

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