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Apple Applies For Color-Change Patent

Posted by Hemos on from the theming-your-machine dept.

Secret300 writes "Apple is applying for a patent to release "devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance." If this is a success, it would considerably boost Apple's presence in the technology world." So, perhaps we can not only theme our desktop on the machine - but our *literal* desktop.

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  1. Well said.. er.. coded!! by Sanity · · Score: 2, Troll
    I have been trying to point out this double standard for a while now, however inevitably Slashdot's wonderful moderation system ensures that Slashdot's readers aren't exposed to my disturbing non-groupthink.

    People don't seem to realize that one of the reasons that Microsoft succeeded where Apple failed is that Microsoft was actually more open than Apple! Where Apple tried to force users to use their pretty but overpriced hardware, Microsoft left users free to pick and choose the components that went into the hardware that ran their Operating System.

    Now, I am not saying that Microsoft are perfect, but if Apple had won the desktop war rather than Microsoft, not only would there be an Operating System monopoly, but it would be a hardware monopoly too!

    I am not suggesting that everyone goes out and installs Windows, rather I am saying that all of the reasons that we should be encouraging use of Linux over Windows apply equally to using Linux over OSX, yet Slashdot's editors seem to have no problem with migration away from Linux to OSX.