Please, compete through innovation...

With all the lawsuits flying around patents on how such companies stole my idea, even though they implement it in a different way or use a different core to run them, on how people do things are suppose to be intuitive for people who use them seems to me a rather ludicrous idea.

I mean, we all do things that are intuitive in the same way mainly because we are all wired to do it in pretty much the same way. That's the main reason why it's easy to use those things in that way, since we don't have to give it much thought.

And when you look even further, more often than not innovating products combine technologies, or practices, in a way that is new. Sometimes, you just change existing implementations in ways that make more sense in a given context making it easier to use. May be, even practical.

Let's be honest, we are all influenced by our surroundings. What we hear, see and read leaves an impression on our mind. In effect, makes up the repository from which we draw to make choices and even create new things.

Something can't come from nothing. There is always something from which all innovations come from, and many times is a recombination of several things that we have experienced to that point. It is possible to come to the same conclusion from different paths. And, there is no reason why the parties that came to the same conclusion to have been in contact to come to it.

In other words, theft is not necessary the cause they came with similar implementations and conclusions. Most likely, the reason is that particular way of solving the problem is the best way to solve the problem.

The design of the interface is where one can truly differentiate between proposals. We all have preferences on how we want things to look, even though what we use behaves in the pretty much the same way. We even expect things to behave in a certain way, and when they don't we stop using them.

There are some cases when we use thing that feel awkward not because we want to, but because we have to. Here is where truly innovating people shine, they bring together different thing they have experienced in other places and times, in a way no one else has though before. Or implement a particular solution in a field that had the need, but not the way to know about that particular implementation.

Technology, and knowledge itself, is build over that what came previously. Nothing really comes out from the vacuum, everything has received influences from whatever comes in contact with it. Even from before the idea was conceived.

So, let's stop worrying about who can use our ideas, or concepts. Let's use that energy to make those ideas and concepts work better. There is always a way to improve on anything, is just a matter of looking into it.

If we don't, is just a matter of time before someone else does.