Apple in the modern world is driving progress and introducing new technologies. However, there are many rumors and scandals around this company, including about allegedly "new" technologies that have been stolen.
Slide to unlock
Slide to unlock is an unlock gesture in which you need to move the slider to the right. Oddly enough, but it was first thought up back in 1999 in the Swedish company Neonode. They received a patent for this development only in 2002. This function was designed not only for telephones, but also for pocket personal computers.
Apple not only appropriated someone else's invention, but also sued Samsung and Motorola. However, she herself is forced to pay the patent holders for using the Slide to unlock gesture.
Pocket personal computer
There is an opinion that it was Apple that gave the world tablet computers. The idea of creating a device with a large screen with touch input in 1989 belongs to the Samsung campaign. Its dimensions were quite impressive, weighed as much as two kilograms. It had a 10 MHz processor and a DOS system.
Also in 2002, Microsoft's campaign created a Tablet PC that ran on XP and had the ability to become a laptop with a spinning screen.
Graphical user interface
On the first computers, there was no graphical interface; it looked like a text or command line. The graphical interface was first offered by Xerox. At Apple, the use of the graphical interface did not appear until ten years later.
Gestures and multitouch
Touch screens were developed a little over fifty years ago. Together with touch screens, so-called gestures have been developed that help in the interaction of the user and the computer.
The company that introduced multitouch technology was Fingerworks in the nineties. And in 2005, Apple bought the rights to use this technology from Fingerworks. Over time, the developers of this touchscreen technology became Apple's chief engineers.
From the above, we can conclude that any technology that has come out is likely to have already been invented at some point. Computer technologies and their development can be described by the proverb: "everything is new, well forgotten old."
