Testimonies continue in the Apple vs. Samsung trial, and this time we have the leading software engineer in charge of basic features like “slide to unlock,” Greg Christie on the bench. Today we find this feature in absolutely every smartphone that you can buy, but before the iPhone, all you had was a power-standby key. Christie spent a good deal of time explaining to the Jury how long it took the company to figure out a smart way to reach consumers with the iPhone, and the details are quite revealing. According to Christie’s testimony, things like slide-to-unlock were ...
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