… OK?
Most people would design a very similar app if asked to design a weather app. Due diligence would be looking at existing apps in the space and making a decision on how much you want to deviate from the norm.
I once had to make an EPG for a TV app. EPGs are the channel schedules on any cable box interface.
It was stupidly complicated getting the navigation down solid. Took a long time. My boss asked at the end “this is great. Can we patent anything from it?”
Uh, no. Anyone with the same problem (navigating multiple channel schedules at once via arrow keys) is going to come up with something similar.
Same with weather apps. And Apple even has guidelines on app layouts for scrolling vs drilling down nested pages.
Seems like the AI did exactly what a human would do.
Patenting obvious solutions is done all the time and perfectly fine from a legal point of view.
That’s good of them. A lot of companies would just say, “fuck it”
They never got that Adobe “fuck it” money, and Apple has lawyers for days.
Or, just hear me out, maybe they’re just not assholes like Adobe.
Yeah, I don’t know about that. Enterprise stuff they do with team, fig jam, and dev mode is pretty shady. They bate businesses with “free” features for a year, you can’t opt out of them, employees adopt them, then Figma starts charging once they’ve got their claws into you.
Figma’s enterprise tactics are some of the shadiest things I’ve ever seen from a vendor that I pay.
But, they have silly stickers in Fig Jam, so people like them.
“Fuck I’m Good, Just Ask Me!”
Are they tone deaf? Genuinely embracing egotism?
I mean, they were totally OK with selling their whole company to Adobe. That’s a pretty asshole move…
