Apple has beenawarded a patentfor the wedge heel intention of the MacBook Air . The definition of the pattern is extensive enough to cover many ultrabooks , extending Apple ’s apparent possession of opprobrious rectangle to thin , mistily katana - like triangles .
The pattern is define by the square lines in the patent drawings — the specked lines are what Apple deems irrelevant to the overall patent design . So really , any laptop computer that is wedged could descend into this class . Even machines like the newLenovo X1 Carbon , or theDell XPS 13 , both of which are well dissimilar from the MacBook Air , but are shaped kinda the same variety of a fiddling . Ugh .
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon : The Ultralight , Semi - furrowed Carbon Fiber Ultrabook
Here ’s the thing , though . If we takeTim Cook at his word — which , let ’s do that for the interest of argumentation — he does n’t desire to club everyone on patent of invention . But give the landscape , it ’s wipe out or be obliterated . It ’s Larry Holmes beat up Muhammad Ali , begging the referee to call the competitiveness . Or , you have it away , take the fight out back and blow it up with a nuclear warhead . [ Verge ]
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