A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
Interesting the author says “other manufacturers don’t bother”.
 Unsurprisingly the real reason is “Apple was granted a patent on this over a decade ago and no one is risking an Apple patent infringement lawsuit over laptop speakers”.<p><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130329898" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130329898</a><p>EDIT: I say granted because that’s how most people understand patents and when they take effect. What really matters on the timeline here is the filing (priority) date and the grant (publish date).<p>It’s patents so it gets really complicated but essentially the later grant (after patent office/authority “review”) more or less makes the effective date the priority date - which to complicate matters even further can actually be the filing date of a referenced provisional patent that (in the US) can be as long as 12 months before the non-provisional (real) patent filing.<p>Clear as mud, right?