Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9
by na85 on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:37PM
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The fingerprint reader is something that's been in every ThinkPad laptop since time immemorial. Apple just wants you to think they invented it because they were the first to put it on a phone.
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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9
by JohnTHaller on Monday June 08, 2015 @08:45PM
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Fingerprint readers on laptops of old were the swipe type. These existed on smartphones before Apple added it to the iPhone. The trick of it was that the iPhone uses a touch sensor instead of a swipe, which works better. Of course, Apple didn't invent it. Another company did. Apple bought that company in an anticompetitive move so that no one else could use the tech. Interestingly enough, that's why the sensor didn't make it into the Nexus 6.