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Invented ideas like "slide-to-unlock" and "rounded corners"? Are those innovations?
by dirkgently 12y ago
Invented ideas like "slide-to-unlock" and "rounded corners"? Are those innovations?
- stonemetal 12y agoUp until Apple bought PA semi most of their gear was off the shelf components. Their patents were mostly design patents. So it isn't right to think of them as innovations and more like an odd quirk in trade mark\trade dress law.
- laichzeit0 12y agoI don't remember any phones having a "slide-to-unlock" before the first iPhone. If I remember most top-end phones had crappy resistive screens that required a stylus. How is that not innovation?
- funkyy 12y agoWindows CE - slide to unlock + touch screen without stylus introduced on Neonode N1m - 2 years before Apple "invented" it. And all this while Apple is suing HTC, Motorola and Samsung over gesture patents...
- dirkgently 12y ago> If I remember most top-end phones had crappy resistive screens that required a stylus Then you remember it wrong.