ab30494 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 http://patft.uspto.g...RS=PN/8,223,134 this patent alot of people fear to be the end of android. Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents Abstract In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on the touch screen display. The displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting the object on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document, a vertical bar is displayed on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document. The vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion of the electronic document. After a predetermined condition is met, display of the vertical bar is ceased. The vertical bar is displayed for a predetermined time period when the portion of the electronic document is initially displayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newboyx Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 What? Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twospirits Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Yeah I read an article on that this morning and retweeted. As well as this one. I see Apple using this to try to force the other manufacturers to change their design and if the court system agrees it may be a disaster. And although I've seen the scroll indicator before on WinMo phones way before the iPhone, somehow someway they got the patent. And not to mention computers themselves. Seriously, It truly is getting out of hand. Google seriously needs to start going for their throat. TS 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themuffinman Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Getting outta hand is so much of an understatement. Something has to be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock_Paper_Scissors_ Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 There is enough prior art that this patent shouldnt be a problem. Although Apple will most definately try to ban products with this patent. Probably before the end of the month we will see some sort of litigation from Apple because of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turkbot Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Well heres my 2 cents about this I os osx- linux based Android- linux based Linux- open source Apple is just trying to prolong the inevitable fall of the apple empire because they know android is better sent from a nuclear explosion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsnake49 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Well heres my 2 cents about this I os osx- linux based Android- linux based Linux- open source Apple is just trying to prolong the inevitable fall of the apple empire because they know android is better sent from a nuclear explosion Just a small correction: OS X and IOS are not linux based. They used the Mach microkernel, that was worked on at Carnegie Mellon by Avie Tevanian, one of the founders of NEXT, which apple acquired. The used land is a mashup of FreeBSD and NetBSD with some OpenBSD for good measure. Their kernel is called XNU. Whether or not Apple will fail, we will see. They have been written off many times since the 80's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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