Apple has a patent on the novel idea of "slide finger

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Finger-operated slide-to-unlock mechanisms are a marvel of modern technology

>>52526947
Can you link to the patent document?

>>52526978
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,046,721.PN.&OS=PN/8,046,721&RS=PN/8,046,721

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>>52526947
Thankfully Apple has invented many things through the millennia that have made everyone's life better.
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>>52527288
I'm sure the starving African children are loving their iPhones.

>>52526947
That's not the most egregious of Apple's patents.

They also have patents for the scrollbar and motion controlled gaming, both clearly invented by Apple.

It got revoked in Germany a while ago because they found an old Tablet PC that already did that.

>>52527124
>Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image
How the fuck is this allowed

>>52528484
Because they allowed pres obobo to backdoor their shit

>>52527333
idiot

>>52527124
Wouldn't that also cover pattern unlock?
> The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking the device.

>>52526947
What stops me from making my own 'swipe to unlock'?

>>52526947
I had the same thing on my n8 years ago...

>>52528885
It depends how you define predetermined gesture. Since you're the one drawing the path, it's specific to you, it shouldn't be considered predetermined.

>>52529335
Ex-fucking-actly

>>52526947
source?
Haven't seen it anywhere yet.

>>52529394
What about the touch whiz swipe any direction to unlock?
The direction isn't predetermined but the gesture sure is.

>>52531516
Read the god damn patent

"moving the unlock image to a predefined location and/or moving the unlock image along a predefined path"

How obvious stuff like this can be patented, I will never understand.

>>52531879
Patents work on the general principle of easy approval, with thorough checks and debate only if there's an accusation of infringement.

The vast majority of patents are never used to defend what they're patenting, and it would be a massive waste of manpower if the patent offices started scrutinizing each patent more closely.

That being said, this isn't a particularly outlandish patent and I don't think it would be overturned if challenged. /g/ just likes inflating non-issues like this.

>>52531879
Because patent clerks are idiots. Always have been, always will be.

>>52531879
>How obvious stuff like this can be patented
I had been using smartphones (mostly windows mobile) from 2000.

Some phones had a button combination to unlock. Others had an "unlock" onscreen button, and when pressed, a popup would appear asking for confirmation.

Also, you could download some apps, to unlock the phone by drawing a pattern in 9 dots.

What I'm trying to say is, it's not obvious at all unless you grew up after when iPhones were the norm you underage cunt.

>>52531974

Companies and people shouldn't be able to patent shit that they didn't invent regardless.

>>52532009
Albert Einstein was a patent clerk btw

>>52532053
>What I'm trying to say is, it's not obvious at all
this
never seen a phone using that metaphor for unlocking before, period.

>>52531715
Even so, the vanilla android "lock circle" thing has an "unlock image" that you move to a predefined location.

>>52532101
I have a theory that while working, Einstein could spend the entire time on his physics hobby because being a patent clerk requires 0 thinking

>>52528484
because we live in an oligarchy. those with the most money set the rules.

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>>52527124
>the thing that you slide has to be an image

well topkek, you can slide "nothing" and not care about this retarded patent

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Apple fans literally on suicide watch

>>52527333
Who actually gives a shit about Africa anymore?

>we're starving!
>here, have some food
>oops, we accidentally tripled our population, and we are starving again!
>have even more aid
>have some jihadists in return! and Aids! and Ebola!
>well here is some aid, medical care, cures for ebola
>damn whiteies, always keeping the black man down! muh dick! muh slavery!

ooh no, i'm being edgy, time for a lot of posts calling me out on being edgy despite accurately representing historical fact

>>52533310
I hope you're an arch user because you're bleeding edge

>>52532215
This is true. This is actually what Einstein himself said.

>>52533385
There is a game they play in africa, where a large number of men with surround a woman, molest her, steal her underwear, and sometimes rape her and strip her naked and then disperse rapidly.

They played this game in germany, with over 1000 men. I don't want them in my country, in my ancestral lands, raping my friends and family

>>52533019
The specific nature of this patent seems to make it redundant. It's not a patent on sliding to unlock, it is a patent on "sliding an image to unlock and having the image move as you slide your finger. also the image has text on it and the text may change as you unlock".

It's like they patented the implementation of an idea rather than the idea itself.

>>52533310
Holy shit this

Africans are filthy monkies and there is nothing else to it.

We have tried so many times to bring them into the first world but the refuse every single time.

Just let them starve to death. They made their bed they can sleep in it.

>>52526947
haha even if. who would give a shit.

>>52532112
>it's different because I did it on a computer

>>52528484
Patents are pretty easy to get. It only becomes an issue when another company infringes. Then apple sends a cease and desist and if they don't it goes to court. In this case, I doubt apple will win it, the probably haven't challenged Samsung and other companies that do this bc they know theyll lose in court, and they'd rather have it to intimidate smaller companies

>>52526947

This is why patents need to go.

Apple can slide their fingers into their collective arse

>>52533962
>>52533310
Your missing some facts in that exhaustive history of Africa

>>52527391
But Apple invented tablets with the iPad

>>52535413
you mean the part where after whites set up successful agriculture the darkies used governments to take over and kick the farmers off the land, only to realize a few years down the line that whitey's farms were the only reason they had any food

>>52535599
Nice b8

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>>52526963
You can put your weed in there

>>52526947
I know it's fashionable to blame Apple, but why not blame the ridiculous system that allowed this to occur in the first place?

>>52528944
Apple
>kek

>>52536172
>Everyone watch while I take the history of one relatively small region of Africa and generalise about the entire continent, a continent that is larger and more diverse than any other on the planet

>>52538448
Go fuck yourself
Yes it IS apples fault.
They should be sued, simple as that.
i hate tards like you that see one person/group/company do something stupid or exploit something, so rather than just use the system we have in place specifically for singular or few-and-far-between cases, going to court, let's instead make large unneseccary restrictions that most of everyone did not need nor want.

Sorry for the rant, desu, that was only partially to you specifically.

>>52533310
>historically accurate

No you're not.

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>>52538672
Actually he is.

>>52538739
No, he isn't.

can some one post the 'slide to unclock' picture?

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>>52538741
Actually he is.

>>52538771
>thinks detroit is in Africa

Thanks for proving my point.

>>52538780
>thinks south africa is any different

Thanks for proving my point.

http://americanfreepress.net/70000-whites-murdered-in-modern-south-africa-obamas-african-legacy/

>>52538780
Worse, he thinks that African Americans are African.

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>>52538816
I wonder if he thinks African Americans are starving in America

>>52533310
WE

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>>52538816
>he thinks transplanting dindus to another country makes them not dindus

>>52538492
Is it a meme to greentext incorrectly now?

>>52538856
And all the whiteys are European.

>>52538510
Sorry message got cut off
>and I love da bbc

Sure is >>>/pol/ in here

>>52535599
Checked

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Always reminded of these

>"Door chain" by Santeri Viinamäki. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Door_chain.JPG#/media/File:Door_chain.JPG

>>52528484
Simple but not widely adopted enough for competing companies to claim prior art. Also, everyone pays everyone else in patent royalties. MS pays Apple, Apple pays MS, Samsung pays Apple and Microsoft, etc.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/stupid-patent-month-microsofts-design-patent-slider

>>52538863
everythings a meme

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>>52527124
wow/10

Have they ever had a successful attempt at defending this 'patent'?

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>>52539002
They would have more of a case if they didn't literally copy practically every single element of MS Office.

Literally millions of other programs use sliders like that, MS only sued Corel for it, take a wild guess why.

>>52535361
>apple will lose to samsung
Expand pls?

>>52526947
This is now a /pol/ --> /g/ containment board.

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>>52533448
>There is a game they play in africa, where a large number of men with surround a woman, molest her, steal her underwear, and sometimes rape her and strip her naked and then disperse rapidly.
[citation needed]

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>>52539116
Holy shit they're not even trying to hide that they copied Office 1:1 down to the icons.

>>52539065
>100*125
Kill yro'rue self.

>>52539166
I myself wanted a higher quality version but some fag posted that. Share if you can find a better one.

>>52539163
>>52539116
>https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=corel+write
>Microsoft Gompatible
;DDDDDDDD

In all seriousness though, that's pretty damning. No wonder why they have to charge for their product.

>>52539216
>>Microsoft Gompatible
topkek

>>52538812
Try this

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3071749/Man-raped-gunpoint-THREE-women-collect-semen-cooler-box-steal-South-Africa.html

>South Africa
>Man held at gunpoint by 3 women
>Semen pilfered via 'rape'
>It's happened more then once

>>52539270
>even nigra wimmin don't want niglet kids

kek

>>52539001
The amazing thing about those is that you only really need a knitting needle or something to open them from the outside.
Of course, this prevents all but the homosexual criminals from getting in without breaking anything.

>>52539420
They're not locks, they're just there so you can open the door part way without someone being able to easily push the door open on you.

There's no point getting upset about something not doing what its not designed to do.

>>52539420
Or a kid with a stool.

http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/tenth/ltngbugs.htm

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>>52539267

>>52539155
Not him but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taharrush_gamea

>>52539420

Correct, its how i think of slide to unlock anyway.

It doesnt stop a full attempt to open a door, much like slide to unlock doesnt stop a full attempt to open a door.

It stops accidental/opportunistic entry, Its more a mental block to make sure the user really wants to do the thing they want to do.

>>52539566
>full attempt to open a door.

full attempt to open a phone*

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>>52539267
It's so small

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>>52526947
Honestly, it was a novel idea at the time.

>>52527366
so valve and nintendo pay them royalty?