I know about software patents but what’s the point when somebody can achieve the exact same functionality from the user’s perspective using totally different code. Just seems like a waste on a patent lawyer.
It’s the functionality that’s patented. It’s not the code. Code is copyrighted.
Can someone give an example of a time when software patents are good for everyone? Because I can only think of software patents that have prevented the widespread adoption of ideas, and not the opposite.
Isn’t that the point, though. Allow someone to profit from it rather than make it free to use. If there is another way to do it, that is not patented but free, they will use that, even if the code is objectively worse. See media codecs for example at the moment.
I think the original intention was to motivate people to create new technologies. If you spent your life savings designing and prototyping a new product in your shed you don’t want a giant company being able to go “cool, thanks I’ll make them myself and run you out of business”.
The whole point is that you’ll invest into it because you’ll be able to profit off it afterwards
This seems like a pretty standard solution for this kind of thing and I don’t believe it would have been patentable - there’s no breakthroughs here, even for 2007.
I had seen it noted on the tracker itself… but it also doesn’t seem very unique or useful overall.
It’s not useful, as it doesn’t always reflect reality so it’s just a bunch of loading bars to manage customer expectation. Ask the domino’s subreddit
Oh it’s definitely useful.
The biggest benefit to all that tracking is they use all that data to optimise the delivery process which ultimately means shorter delivery times and lower prices. Those five dollar pizzas are partly thanks to cheap ingredients and low pay, but some of it is also efficient production and delivery.