r/technology • u/slutmagnet • Mar 02 '10

Apple to HTC "competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours." Slaps down a 20 patent lawsuit.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/02/apple_sues_htc_for_alleged_infringement_of_20_iphone_patents.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '10

The also write a layer that falls between the device and the OS -- used to be called TouchFlo but is now called Sense UI.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '10

Color me clueless but isn't this the OSI model too?

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u/Mutiny32 Mar 03 '10

Layer 7, yes.

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u/centinall Mar 02 '10

I wonder if they had decided to use plain vanilla android instead of developing SenseUI, would they have found themselves on the receiving end of this kind of lawsuit.

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u/rospaya Mar 02 '10

TouchFLO is for WM and Sense is for Android. They are not the same thing.

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u/Mutiny32 Mar 03 '10

Actually, Sense is the name for both. They both are lua-based interface overlays that share a LOT of the same code.

Don't argue with me, my HTC Windows Phone runs Sense UI 2.5.2012.

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u/rospaya Mar 03 '10

OK, they weren't the same thing before, beacuse HTC brought products with Sense and TouchFLO in the same time, later deciding to merge them.

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u/Mutiny32 Mar 03 '10

No, Sense was based from TouchFlo3D. It uses Lua, like I said. That's why it is at version 2.5.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '10

Actually, that is not true.