or this: http://gizmodo.com/5964965/new-apple-patent-outlines-the-wireless-charging-future-were-all-dreaming-of

I'm sorry, in what fucked up reality does rebellion and resistance lead to MORE stability? Even if you accept his premises (which sounds a bit out there to me), the solution to his supposed instability is that?

I'm not proposing a new standard. I'm proposing an aggregator of existing standards.

I would sell my soul do Sauron for an app that did what I was describing....

See my response about trillian below. I would also rather one service that can handle chat and SMS. On a smart phone it should be relatively easy. It just needs permission to check your texts.

Trillian is the only one of those that I have used so I can only comment on it. It is close, but not quite what I want. It aggregates all your services into a hub, but I want an app that intelligently combines them as well. So I don't have to flip between the gchat and SMS tabs for a single contact, the software…

I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't sign into all your services one time, and that was it. And also, it should be possible for the software to recognize which contacts are the same across services. I'm sure it's not that easy, but it should be doable. There are already lots of services that combine all the…

Why isn't there an app that doesn't try to replace all these various messaging services, but instead combines them all? Rather than trying to find one service that can replace sms, instant messenger, facebook chat, etc., have it monitor all those services, combine all the communications from each a single contact into…

Google has actually been moving towards minimalistic style and design for several years now.

It sounds like you and I are essentially arguing the same thing. I'm not blaming Apple (or any of the other companies that do this) for doing it. They are companies that are only responsible to their bottom line. If they can get away with it, of course they are going to. They are in fact, legally bound to in a sense.…

I can almost guarantee you they do not have a prototype. The patent would be FAR more detailed with how it works. They are patenting the CONCEPT of wireless charging at a distance. They don't know how to make it work in a practical manner anymore than I do. If they had a working prototype, and were patenting the…

Exactly. And I'm guessing that even in the cases that the patent wouldn't hold up in court, you probably can't afford the legal fees to defend your patent. And even if you could, settling is usually cheaper. I think that in when a frivolous patent is thrown out in court, the owner should have to pay the legal fees of…

Unfortunately, many corporations (Apple included) keep resubmitting patents until they eventually get accepted. So even if it isn't approved the first time around, it will be eventually.

Patents for actual methods of doing things are far, far more detailed than this, because they are protecting the HOW of doing it, and more detailed patents are stronger and will stand up better in court. Apple has no idea how to make this work. I want to see something like this too, and I don't care who does it, Apple…

They shouldn't have this patent for any amount of time at all. Having this patent means that if in the next 30 years (or is it 20? can't remember, doesn't really matter) someone figures out how to ACTUALLY do this, they either have to wait for the patent to expire or pay royalties on an idea that THEY came up with.…

Having an idea is WORLDS apart from making it work. If you have no idea how to make something work, you shouldn't get to patent it. And if you truly are the first one to ever think of something, then you have plenty of time to figure it out and patent it then. If the system worked the way you are saying, then pretty…

Since they started allowing software patents, pretty much.

This whole concept of patenting the "idea" of something is RIDICULOUS. Obviously Apple is not the only culprit, everyone is doing it. It started off with software, but this is hardware! They shouldn't have gotten this patent unless they could submit a prototype to the patent office and new how the hell to do it. I…

for 95% of my driving, I don't. But every once in a while I do need it (I just drove 717 miles each way for thanksgiving) . I'd rather not have to own two cars or rent one when I need it, thus the range. Although, realistically, if they get the charge time down to what I mentioned, then you could decrease the range as…

Hopefully faster charging is one of the goals as well. I would love to get an all electric vehicle, but the best ones out so far (the Tesla series) don't quite meet my minimum requirements: 300-500 mile range, with a 15 minute charge to 85%. Plus they are way too expensive right now.