Patent war between Apple and Samsungom can be really interesting in the future, since Apple recently obtained a patent for a new circular menu containing quick access to several functions. But the team that follows also dianie with the competition they could already immediately recognize the similarity of the patented graphical interface with the function Air Command, which was introduced by Samsung last year as a function of pre Samsung Galaxy Footnote 3.
However, there are some differences between the two technologies and while Samsung uses a circular menu on the phone Galaxy Notes 3, Apple wants to use the same interface mainly on OS X. But even though the interface for Mac computers has priority, Apple in its patent, it mentions the possibility of use on a touch screen and stylus support, which actually copies the function introduced by Samsung already a year ago. Even in this case, however, it is quite likely that Apple he will never use this patent and it will be really absurd if he decides to sue Samsung for using the feature in their phones.
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The question is when was the patent filed :)
Moreover, it has something quite similar Apple for a long time now iOS and it's called AssistiveTouch and Apple could easily assume that this patent is expanding. If I remember correctly, it was iOS It's from version 4 so it's been more than 4 years.
Jrousek: exactly as you say, something quite similar. The only difference is that assistive touch is a replacement for hardware buttons and this is for software functions, just like it is with the Note. I don't know if it was based on AssistiveTouch. It will be interesting especially when Apple will sue Samsung for future use of this creation.
Drivers expanding the capabilities of the Genius mouse already had a similar menu X years ago.
Or like this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/360-web-browser-download-manager/id387737097?mt=8