Comment Re:Misleading summary (Score 1) 347
If you can't use slide to unlock, you can do something different. Annoying as it might be, the very fact that people think slide to unlock is trivial means it shouldn't matter. You could use a combination of the physical button and a soft button to unlock the screen, or may ask the user to touch four points in order. There are way to work around that patent.
Apparently, Apple disagrees. They believe that their patent is so broad that any action of touching the screen is infringing on their patent. Apple has gone on record to claim that a tap is a zero length slide. So, the problem is broad and vague patents are being granted and abused.