Things are heating up in the patent wars with Android's market share
growing while the iPhone's growth has shrunk. Both Apple and HTC have
hit each other hard in the press while Cupertino has taken the
competition to court over multiple alleged patent claims.
Wired
takes a look at those patents and envisions just what Google's Android
phones would look like if Apple won every part of the suit. Short
answer: back to the drawing board for Android and HTC.
For
starters, there's a number of just sheer aesthetic issues at play. The
one near-constant about Apple products is that they are gorgeous.
Layout, design, iconography, everything. There's a reason Macs are the
chosen computers for graphic designers and a lot of that has to do with
how attentive the computer maker is to graphical interface.
Stripped
of one patent, that guiding “Time-based, non-constant translation of
user interface objects between states," in other words that technology
that reflows your apps when you delete one from a row, an Android's
phone would instead leave a gap. This would resemble what happens when
you delete a shortcut from a desktop computer. The resultant gappy icon
set would have to be manually moved and rearranged, leading to a
cluttered look, a small hassle, but one with serious aggravations for
the user.
Image Source: Wired.com
Then there's how the iPhone scrolls. "Touch screen
device, method and graphical user interface for determining commands by
applying heuristics” refers to how when you begin scrolling with your
finger, the iPhone locks in the direction for a smoother transition.
With that gone, your Android phone would wiggle and swerve, dependent on
the slightest non-linear gesture, causing orientation headaches. To get
around this, Google's phone could add ugly navigation arrows or scroll
bars along the side, eating up valuable display real estate.
This
doesn't even get into deeper functionality, such as how Android phones
shut down GPS to conserve power when the battery is low or the swipe
based unlock mechanism or sleep modes or even multitasking (yes, the
iPhone offers limited multitasking, such as looking at a map while
listening to the iPod).
Simply put, if Apple wins their lawsuit
(something the folks at HTC and Google should be preparing for in any
case), the future for Android phones isn't pretty.
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SpaceTrucker
March 06, 2010 at 7:32am
Google doesn't use the Apple iPhone O/S for their ability to do all this stuff, so how can Apple claim anything against them, Google has found a different way to do these things using a different operating system from Apple, thereby Apple's Patent doesn't hold water, IMHO. And the one about graphical user interfaces, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, RIM, and others had a graphical user interface similar to what Apple is using now well before Apple come on the market, so where did they get a patent for this?
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Knowing
October 22, 2010 at 2:22am
First off, these companies brought the lawsuit to apples doorstep. They were the first to take action on foolishness. Second I didnt see any thing resembling anything like the iphone except for the stylus which is crap. The companies u named up above didnt come out with what the iphone looks like now. they were still using flip phones. When apple came out with the iPhone the other cell phone companies were getting scared cause they were losing sales, so to keep there business up the needed to make fast cash. Apple turned around and slapped over 20 diff. patent lawsuits against these companies that started crap. From reading most of the comments people think that Apple did this to sue google and other companies. However the article states that Apple applied for this patent two years before the first iPhone came out. To me it seems like Apple developed a new way to use a touch screen on mobile devices and patented to protect themselves. And why waiting for their patent to be approved they watched as other companies copied them. And, yet, for some odd reason no one else had come up with the idea prior to Apple. So maybe it isn't as obvious as you think it is. WHERE DID ANYONE USE ANYTHING LIKE COVERFLOW PRIOR TO APPLE??? Examples please? None? Thought so. I certainly had not seen it, and I distinctly remember it as new when I first saw it in iTunes.
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