Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

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

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Multi-Dimensional Desktop

Filed June 8th, 2007

Software companies keep coming up with three-dimensional interfaces that fail to catch the world’s imagination. That doesn’t mean that someone won’t make 3D make sense someday. And Apple has as good or better a shot of nailing it. Here’s an image from a patent filing that shows a multi-dimensional reimagining of the current OS X interface. (AppleInsider, the kings of Apple patent reporting, have an in-depth look at it with lots more images.)

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