Apple gets iTunes user interface patent
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Apple granted patent for iTunes
interface
Apple granted patent for iTunes
interface
05/11/2004 11:52 PMApple has been awarded a patent for the interface of iTunes, according
to CNET News.com...
Apple Receives Patent for iTunes
Interface
Apple Receives Patent for iTunes
Interface
05/12/2004 06:46 PMApple wins iTunes interface patent
Apple wins iTunes interface patent
05/11/2004 08:51 PMThe Mac maker wins a patent for the interface of its iTunes music
software, underscoring the growing importance of the multimedia
business for the company.
Patent Suit Filed Against Apple Over
iTunes Interface
Patent Suit Filed Against Apple Over
iTunes Interface
06/22/2005 02:46 AM
AppleInsider reports that Contois Music Technology, run by David
Contois, filed suit Monday against Apple for patent infringement based
on the iTunes ...
iTunes Producer patent application
reveals interface
iTunes Producer patent application
reveals interface
12/24/2004 12:57 PMApple has filed for a patent covering its iTunes Producer application,
which is used by record companies and artists to encode and send music
to the iTunes Music Store...
Apple sued over iTunes interface
Apple sued over iTunes interface
06/22/2005 01:58 AMA small Vermont company is suing Apple, claiming the interface
infringes on its patents.
Apple opens up iTunes interface on
Windows
Apple opens up iTunes interface on
Windows
05/18/2004 10:34 AMApple has released a SDK for Windows. Exposing some iTunes
functionality through the COM interface, this SDK could allow for
tighter integration between iTunes and Windows Media Center Edition.
Apple Sued Over iTunes Software
Interface
Apple Sued Over iTunes Software
Interface
06/22/2005 02:01 AMContois Music Technology last week asked a Federal COurt to stop
the iPod maker from distributing its iTunes jukebox software and is
seeking damages over an alleged patent violation by the iTunes
software. By AppleInsider
iTunes User Sues Apple Over DRM
iTunes User Sues Apple Over DRM
01/06/2005 09:19 AMReuters is reporting that an angry
iTunes customer is suing Apple, claiming that he is forced to buy an
iPod if he wants to listen to his music on the move. Thomas Slattery,
from California, filed the lawsuit for unspecified damages over the
inclusion of Apple's "
Fairplay" Digital Rights Management system in
tracks bought over iTunes. "Fairplay" encodes files in the
AAC format, and downloaded songs cannot be transferred to MP3 players
- except Apple's own iPod.
The suit alleges Apple has broken anti-trust laws by only allowing its
songs to be played on its own player. The majority of MP3 players
support rival Microsoft's WMA format which also has DRM. The WMA
standard is also used by most online music stores, including
Napster. Apple is
believed to hold as much as 87% of the digital music player market,
with more than six million iPods now sold.
It alleges that "Apple has turned an open and interactive
standard into an artifice that prevents consumers from using the
portable hard drive digital music player of their choice, even where
players exist that would otherwise be able to play these music files
absent Apple's actions". Mr Slattery described himself as an
iTunes customer who "was also forced to purchase an Apple
iPod" if he wanted to take the music he had bought with him.
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Apple iTunesRead full story...ITunes user sues Apple over iPod
ITunes user sues Apple over iPod
01/06/2005 06:54 AMA user of Apple's iTunes services sues the firm saying it is unfair
that he can only use an iPod to play songs.
iTunes user sues Apple over FairPlay DRM
iTunes user sues Apple over FairPlay DRM
01/06/2005 08:02 PMThomas William Slattery has filed a class action suit against Apple
Computer Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
California, alleging Apple is guilt of violating federal antitrust
laws and California's unfair competition law by requiring users who
buy music from the iTunes Music Store to use an iPod if they plan to
take their music on the road with them. Slattery's suit cuts to the
heart of an ongoing issue related to Digital Rights Management (DRM)
technology present in commercial downloaded music.
iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In
iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In
01/06/2005 12:12 PMiTunes user sues Apple over FairPlay DRM
(MacCentral)
iTunes user sues Apple over FairPlay DRM
(MacCentral)
01/06/2005 07:49 PMMacCentral - Thomas William Slattery has filed a class action suit
against Apple Computer Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of California, alleging Apple is guilt of violating federal
antitrust laws and California's unfair competition law by requiring
users who buy music from the iTunes Music Store to use an iPod if they
plan to take their music on the road with them. Slattery's suit cuts
to the heart of an ongoing issue related to Digital Rights Management
(DRM) technology present in commercial downloaded music.
Apple settles with patent holder on
iTunes
Apple settles with patent holder on
iTunes
08/04/2004 02:58 PMWith Microsoft and Apple crossed off its list, E-Data sues Amazon,
Ticketmaster and others.
BBC NEWS | Technology | ITunes user sues
Apple over iPod
BBC NEWS | Technology | ITunes user sues
Apple over iPod
01/07/2005 04:15 AMforced him to buy an iPod in order to take his iTunes stuff with him
.. ITunes user sues Apple over iPod .. suing Apple because each
song
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Apple coughs up for iTunes Music Store
patent
Apple coughs up for iTunes Music Store
patent
08/05/2004 10:29 AMLicenses Freeny
iTunes User Sues Apple For Only Letting
Music Play On The iPod
iTunes User Sues Apple For Only Letting
Music Play On The iPod
01/05/2005 10:30 PMWell, this should be interesting. An "unhappy" iTunes user is now
suing Apple for antitrust
violations, claiming that they broke antitrust laws by only
allowing their music to play on iPods -- blocking out other music
players from the market. It's unlikely that he'll win the lawsuit,
and honestly, it sounds more like a setup by an Apple competitor than
just some individual who feels wronged. The guy in question says he
was "forced" to buy an iPod in order to make use of the music he
bought on iTunes, but the courts will likely point out that he could
have gone to a competing online music store. Of course, what this
really highlights is how some of these copy protection issues are
building fragmented worlds. How would people react if the CDs they
bought at Tower Records could only play on Tower-branded radios?
Thanks to the way the industry views intellectual property online, the
end result is a lot of competing separate worlds, which actively
discourages use.
On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface
On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface
09/09/2002 06:29 AMThe Zooming User Interface
The Zooming User Interface
08/15/2004 08:45 PMEven in the present day, the desktop metaphor still pervades, but
with increases in the amount of information available to any one
person, this metaphor is felt to be in need of a reworking. The
zooming user interface (ZUI) is an idea first discussed by Bederson
(1993) as a radical change to the way in which a person interacts with
a computer. This paper will initially discuss how a ZUI works,
followed by a review of the empirical literature available.
User Interface Design
User Interface Design
06/14/2002 12:15 PM"(...) good design always involves a process of compromise."
Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
08/17/2004 04:46 PMHere's a
fascinating rap on a new way to do UI's.
It's called ZUI.
Always interesting in that.....
Found via
Advogato
Other pages on OS X user interface
Other pages on OS X user interface
06/05/2005 11:39 PMOther developers write about walking the user interface
line—trying to be consistent but also having to create custom
widgets to stay modern.
Michael Dupuis: “Sure there are
‘lesser’ elements available to us as developers, but they
often don’t have the ‘bling’ that users come to
expect.”
Dan
Wood: “We have to walk the line in our user interface
decisions all the time, trying to make an application look consistent
with the Mac interface, and also ‘modern.’”
nmap Graphical User Interface
nmap Graphical User Interface
06/15/2004 08:17 AMNmapSi 0.2 Beta is Released!!
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.23
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.23
06/03/2004 06:48 PMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.28
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.28
06/30/2004 07:24 PMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
Location X gets tweaked user interface,
more
Location X gets tweaked user interface,
more
10/30/2003 01:40 PMShareware authors Alex Keresztes and Greg Novick have updated
Location X, the
US$20 location manager for Mac OS X, to version 2.0, which offers a
new user interface, new customization options and more.
Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers
Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers
10/10/2002 09:55 AMUser Interface Design for Programmers
User Interface Design for Programmers
05/31/2004 11:33 PM
I read Joel
Spolsky's book over the weekend: "User Interface Design for Programmers." This is an
excellent guide to usability — for client apps and for Web
development.
The strength of the book is that it doesn't start by presenting
many hard-and-fast rules, but instead concetrates on general concepts
that you really need to understand to develop an effective user
interface. People Can't Read. People Can't Remember. People Can't
Control the Mouse. Design for Extremes. These principles then
naturally lead to more specific guidelines.
For example: you know how when you first learn CSS, you put a
textarea rule in your sheet to change the font in text boxes from that
ugly monospaced, Courier font to some slick variably-spaced font?
Looks nice, sure, but Joel demonstrates how hard it can be to edit for
some people. Sure, it's fine for you, but you're young and you have
an optical, USB mouse, and you've been using computers since you got
out of diapers.
Sadly, however, everyone isn't you. Some users don't have your
eyesight, motor skills, or experience, and your tiny little
variably-spaced font is now a problem for them. Lower-case L's, for
instance, are now just one pixel wide. A lower-case I differs from a
lower-case L by only a single pixel. If two lower-cased L's are next
to each other ("allegory"), there's only one pixel of "gutter" space
between them — ever tried getting the text insert cursor to land
exactly between them? You're literally trying to hit a 1-pixel wide
target.
Upon reading this, I went back to an app I was writing and changed
all text inputs and text areas to Courier New, 12px. It doesn't look
as nice, but I'll concede that it's easier and clearer to edit.
Sometimes usability comes at the price of how things look, but so it
goes.
Joel touches on the user model and system model that I read about
earlier this year in Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things." Simply put, a user
forms a model in his or her head about how your app works. That model
may have nothing to do with how it really works (the system model),
but that's your problem, not the user's. Your goal as an interface
designer, is to make the implementation model (how the interface
represents the system model) match the user model as closely as
possible.
The book is full of good ideas and really solid, non-frilly advice.
Joel's obvious experience saturates every page (I gather he did the
UI for the ISP Juno, and was on the Microsoft Excel team). It's
full-color with glossy pages and scads of screen caps.
I'll finish here by hand-typing an excerpt that's so good I'll risk
the copyright lawyers. It addresses a point I talked about a while ago when I was struggling with the non-confirmity of
the Linux interface.
I've seen companies where management prides themselves on doing
things deliberately different from Microsoft. "Just because
Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," they brag, and then
proceed to create a gratuitouisly different interface from the one
that people are used to. Before you start chanting the mantra "just
because because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," please
consider two things.
One, even if it's not right, if Microsoft is doing it in a popular
program like Word, Excel, Windows, or Internet Explorer, millions of
people are going to think that it's right, or at least fairly
standard. [...and] if you refuse to do it on some general religious
principle that Bill Gates is the evil Smurf arch-nemesis Gargamel then
you are just gratuitiously ruining your program so that you can feel
smug and self-satisifed [...]
Two, don't be so sure it's not right. Microsoft spends more money
on usability testing than you do; they keep detailed statistics based
on millions of tech support phone calls; and there's a darn good
chance that they did it that way because more people can figure out
how to use it that way.
As much as I hate to admit Microsoft is right, amen to
that.
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Palm OS User Interface Guidelines
Palm OS User Interface Guidelines
12/06/2002 08:01 AMXUL Defines New User Interface Options
XUL Defines New User Interface Options
10/28/2002 11:23 AMResolver User Layer Interface 0.29
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.29
08/15/2004 05:59 AMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
UIDK (User Interface Development Kit)
UIDK (User Interface Development Kit)
10/29/2003 11:26 AMHomepage
IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder
1.0.0
IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder
1.0.0
08/09/2004 11:49 PMA user interface building tool for Swing and Eclipse GUIs.
History of the Graphical User Interface
History of the Graphical User Interface
11/25/2002 09:54 AMReport: User Interface Issues
Report: User Interface Issues
03/14/2005 05:07 PMinconsistencies in Apple software, various design issues
User-Interface Designers Take Note
User-Interface Designers Take Note
06/05/2005 10:47 PMSpencer
Critchley is going to travel with a hammer from now on.
Watch Out!
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.25
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.25
06/09/2004 05:18 PMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
User Interface System Requirements
User Interface System Requirements
05/22/2004 11:12 AMResolver User Layer Interface 0.22
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.22
05/31/2004 05:41 AMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
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