I have always wondered how large amounts get transferred from company to company? Especially when they are in the billions. Anyone have an idea?
i'm not at liberty to share all the details, but it involves condoms and a lot of laxative.
I have always wondered how large amounts get transferred from company to company? Especially when they are in the billions. Anyone have an idea?
It's pattern matching plus a built-in action link. That's basically it.
Recognizing common data such as phone numbers was a popular thing to do in DB programs from at least the 80s.
So basically Samsung owes them lunch.
Then Apple infringes the copyright of ALL lock manufacturers. How many apple should pay for them? /sSLIDE TO UNLOCK
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I know "anecdotes" aren't evidence, but having worked in cellular sales from 2011-2015, I can tell you that literally DOZENS AND DOZENS of times I've had some sweet old lady (or man... or middle aged of either, actually) come in; drop a cheap-ass Galaxy Tab on the counter & ask: "how do I do that FaceTime thingy with my grandkids, here on my iPad??" or when I'm describing a cool new iPhone feature to them they say "Oooh, I've owned my iPhone for a while- I don't think it does that though!"... I ask them what model they have & they take out an old Galaxy S.
So.... I couldn't possibly extrapolate that out with a degree of accuracy, but an incredibly modest guess would put many tens of thousands of consumers believing they own an iPhone or iPad when they do not.
that sounds so convenient. why is that every iPhone user on Apple forums has cousins or sisters whose Android smartphones are possessed by vicious malwares and other deadly viruses? I have been here at MR and AI long enough that your anecdote has been recycled over and over again.
Now, do you want to hear about my rMacBook Pro (mid 2012) that exploded in one cold night in 2013?
And then apple kills slide to unlock. RIP beautiful UX design.
People will say that it's unfair to patent this and that and i agree when it's a patent troll who doesn't make a phone or competing product. But samsung copied apple and then reaped the benefits of their designs. There should be something in place patents or not that prevent you from novel ideas like slide to unlock being stolen.
But, I definitely would feel foolish asserting the notion that literally no consumer has ever purchased a Samsung phone or tablet, believing that they were getting an iPhone or iPad.
Again, recognition of a pattern + the actions that you can do with it. You can't do that with green screen stuff because there was no way to specify an action...unless the hilited it somehow and what, launched another DOS app, killing your current app?
Slide to unlock is so basic and intuitive, Apple shouldn't have been given a patent. You have a touch screen. There are only two ways to interact with it, tap or slide. Of course slide would be the choice to go to to avoid accidentally unlocking the phone. Imagine a game being able to patent swiping as part of the control and no other game can use it. That would be ridiculous.
It's actually not intuitive at all. There were plenty of touchscreens before the iPhone that didn't do slide-to-unlock. It seems obvious now because it was the best solution.
It's just like Samsung apologists saying that Samsung didn't copy the iPhone's icons. There is a universe of colors and shapes that Samsung could choose from, and they happened to choose the exact green and phone shape that Apple did? Right.
I'll admit I was really worried when iOS 10 came out that my 3yo was going to have issues. He'd gotten used to slide-to-unlock on the iPad. But after I sat down and showed him that you just press the home button twice instead (once to wake, once to unlock), he picked up on it almost immediately.I didn't start using Touch ID until not too long before iOS 10 came out. So it's almost like I'm getting used to the combo together with no middle transition.
That said, you don't click multiple times? Huh. I believe you that there must be some proper way to do it that I just haven't figured out yet. Swipe was really easy and intuitive. Both my children figured out swipe-to-unlock before they were 2 years old. Sometimes it's as easy as click-and-hold. But other times that doesn't work, and I end up clicking and holding and clicking to finally get it to go.
As far as these patent law suits and fines go... sometimes it is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
well, the problem is, there is nothing to forgive. Having followed the lawsuit for the past 4 years, it quite clear that it's Apple bullying their competitors, using all their political and legal means. This is not a question of forgiveness -- and there would be none. And it's certainly not about the technical merits of Apple's "innovation," either, though it's discussed a lot, as if they really matter.
Losing these lawsuits at this point, however, would further enforce the view that Apple has been just trolling their competitors. Apple is probably going to lose their design case by the SCOTUS this month and while they just salvaged the appeal had lost in its entirety, it's more about their saving face at this point, IMO.