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'Invented'. For fuck sake, how else were you going to do it on a touch screen phone?
by hessenwolf 15y ago
'Invented'. For fuck sake, how else were you going to do it on a touch screen phone?
- thebooktocome 15y agoHindsight bias.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- hnhg 15y agoThe point is that it's not worth a patent.
- hessenwolf 15y agoMaybe there is different version of the galaxy with a slider that more closely resembles the Apple version? For mine, I just have to rub my thumb along anywhere on the screen to open it, and I can choose a special pattern if I want (I really don't trust that one to work). How else would you open a screen without buttons? By tapping on it in a pattern? Or by rubbing it in a pattern? Tap-rub-tap just to avoid a patent?
- 0x44 15y agoWith the proliferation of buttons on most android phones I've seen, they could have easily added a hardware unlock button.
- hessenwolf 15y agoExpensive. Touchscreen phones have few parts, less assembly, less testing... even if the hardware costs more, the design and labour surely costs less?