Corporation dough decided to patent another half dozen things

Right now on Engadget:

A bundle of 14 patents for which Apple claims was published this morning, which covers everything that is possible, starting with “cable design that prevents entanglement”, ending with “an adaptive system and methods (methods?) Of audio responses.”
By the way, there is nothing especially beautiful or exciting in patents. Everyone knows about alternative wired headsets for phones that do not turn into a Gordian knot of wires in a bag in half an hour, unlike the native Apple headset. The way to prevent entanglement has been known for a long time , so it is strange that it has not yet been patented.
Also on the list is the iMac tilt mechanism on the stand, a pusher control wheel, familiar to everyone on iPods, GPU resource management technologies, and so on.
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Those interested can see the details of the patents .

If Apple gets these patents, then some manufacturers will not be very good.

Here, for example, patent number 20110164029 Working with 3D Objects . In short, the “bulging” of the planes is patented using the proximity sensor or another method for determining the approach. Those. if some company releases something like “Garipotere Otak” for the xbox, where you have to wave your hands on the screen to break through the walls, then this company will crash into serious grandmothers if Apple gets a patent.

Most of all, I am personally saddened by the fact that in that year, a still sensible proposal to reduce patent rights from 20 (and in some cases 25) years to more or less adequate five has no chance of adoption, because even if everyone interested in long patents of the person will throw off the dollar, this is enough for the physical elimination of all those pushing such a proposal.