How Apples victory over Samsung will Affect You

[Sdude1200]

m.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-apples-victory-over-samsung-will-affect-you/

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[Johnly]

Did someone say Apple was victorious? We are giving money to the poor child.

 

[Ry]

m.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-apples-victory-over-samsung-will-affect-you/

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The only ones I'm concerned with are the multitouch and pinch to zoom gestures. Just license it already.

Everything else is pretty irrelevant. I mean, I get by without the rubber banding/bounce-back and I would really hope Android manufacturers didn't use a picture of a yellow flower for the Gallery icon.


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[JFetch]

The whole thing is going to get thrown out so it doesn't matter.

Apple/Samsung Jurors Admit They Finished Quickly By Ignoring Prior Art & Other Key Factors | Techdirt

 

[cgardnervt]

It wont...I will still continue to buy 0 Apple products.

 

[MERCDROID]

The only ones I'm concerned with are the multitouch and pinch to zoom gestures. Just license it already.

Everything else is pretty irrelevant. I mean, I get by without the rubber banding/bounce-back and I would really hope Android manufacturers didn't use a picture of a yellow flower for the Gallery icon.


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I honestly don't think any company should have to license universal gestures that are basically essential to using capacitative touch screen technology. I believe these patents should get thrown out on the basis of prior art. If they don't get thrown out, then Apple should be required to license them under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. As far as Slide to Unlock, I can live without it. With Samsung using motion gestures on the S3, I believe they should implement them more into the OS. Imagine being able to zoom in and out by moving the device closer to or away from your face

 

[ice2008]

The trial is far from over as Samsung appealed which essentially means the whole mess is starting all over again.

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[mzanette]

"A particularly crazy patent granted to Apple asserts that it basically owns the entire design and style of navigating a touch smartphone and the types of menus present on most of them today. Widgets, email apps, camera apps, grids of photos in galleries, phone apps, calendar apps, search, and even Web browsers could be targeted by Apple."

Yeah ok. Basically you can't do anything on a phone because Apple owns the patent.

 

[Ry]

I honestly don't think any company should have to license universal gestures that are basically essential to using capacitative touch screen technology. I believe these patents should get thrown out on the basis of prior art. If they don't get thrown out, then Apple should be required to license them under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. As far as Slide to Unlock, I can live without it. With Samsung using motion gestures on the S3, I believe they should implement them more into the OS. Imagine being able to zoom in and out by moving the device closer to or away from your face

For the record: http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/8/30/3279628/apple-pinch-to-zoom-patent-myth

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[JHBThree]

I honestly don't think any company should have to license universal gestures that are basically essential to using capacitative touch screen technology. I believe these patents should get thrown out on the basis of prior art. If they don't get thrown out, then Apple should be required to license them under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. As far as Slide to Unlock, I can live without it. With Samsung using motion gestures on the S3, I believe they should implement them more into the OS. Imagine being able to zoom in and out by moving the device closer to or away from your face

Considering that touch screen phones existed for a decade before the iPhone without multi touch, your point doesn't make any sense. Pinch to zoom is not essential. (Not that apple has a patent on it anyway) Inertial scrolling and bounce back is not essential. Slide to lock isn't either.

You need to learn the meaning of Essential before trying to group multitouvh gestures into that category.

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[BellaRed]

The whole thing is going to get thrown out so it doesn't matter.

Apple/Samsung Jurors Admit They Finished Quickly By Ignoring Prior Art & Other Key Factors | Techdirt

The BBC is now reporting this - BBC News - Apple versus Samsung: Jury foreman justifies $1bn verdict , some of the comments on the article are very interesting.

If this link doesn't work go the the BBC home page and on the right hand side it can be found on the features and analysis section under the title 'We weren't biased'

 

[MERCDROID]

Considering that touch screen phones existed for a decade before the iPhone without multi touch, your point doesn't make any sense. Pinch to zoom is not essential. (Not that apple has a patent on it anyway) Inertial scrolling and bounce back is not essential. Slide to lock isn't either.

You need to learn the meaning of Essential before trying to group multitouvh gestures into that category.

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I'll admit I did get a little confused for a second, and may be I am still confused... I thought that with the invention of capacitative touchscreens, multi-touch gestures such as pinch to zoom were commonly attributed to them, even if not essential to using them. And I figured that if Apple patented what seems to be the simplest gestures of using a touchscreen, then they would "essentially" have a monopoly on a technology that does have Prior Art. And until I read the link that Ry posted, I thought Apple had Pinch to Zoom patented. Thanks for clearing up the confusion All this talk of patents is nauseating at best lol

 

[gollum18]

I don't really understand the whole slide to unlock patent thing. Stock ics/jb looks lock screen looks nothing like apples slide to unlock.

As for the motions I think Samsung should patent them themselves, give em a bit more ammo to use against apple in case they try to claim they invented it first and get the patent because they threw money at a corrupt us patents office.

Honestly I don't even think they know what they are granting patents for anymore

Apple is going to takeover the world and its going to end up like that new movie "Branded"

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[JHBThree]

I don't really understand the whole slide to unlock patent thing. Stock ics/jb looks lock screen looks nothing like apples slide to unlock.

As for the motions I think Samsung should patent them themselves, give em a bit more ammo to use against apple in case they try to claim they invented it first and get the patent because they threw money at a corrupt us patents office.

Honestly I don't even think they know what they are granting patents for anymore

Apple is going to takeover the world and its going to end up like that new movie "Branded"

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Theres lots of misinformation in your post.

1) Apple's slide to unlock patent has many different parts. One of them is an unlock image that moves as part of the unlocking mechanism. ICS and JB still violate that part. (samsungs newest implementation does not though)

2) Apple does not bribe the patent office. Surely you don't honestly believe that?

3) Of course the patent office knows what they're granting patents for. Just because some android fans dislike the patents they're granting doesn't mean they have somehow started ignoring their job. Also, if you feel that way about the patent office, then you'll be the first to complain when googles notification patent is granted, right?

4) Apple taking over the world is a big stretch, and hugely hyperbolic.

 

[Ry]

3) Of course the patent office knows what they're granting patents for. Just because some android fans dislike the patents they're granting doesn't mean they have somehow started ignoring their job. Also, if you feel that way about the patent office, then you'll be the first to complain when googles notification patent is granted, right?

Boom.

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[PookiePrancer]

Theres lots of misinformation in your post.

1) Apple's slide to unlock patent has many different parts. One of them is an unlock image that moves as part of the unlocking mechanism. ICS and JB still violate that part. (samsungs newest implementation does not though).

I thought Apple's patent specified that the image had to be moved to a predetermined point. That's why ICS and JB let you just pull a lock anywhere outside a circle. But yeah, Samsung's solution is better still.

 

[JHBThree]

I thought Apple's patent specified that the image had to be moved to a predetermined point. That's why ICS and JB let you just pull a lock anywhere outside a circle. But yeah, Samsung's solution is better still.

Not quite. The parts specifying the image and the path are separate.

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