Gesture Controls on the iPhone X May Have Been a Direct Copy of webOS

With Apple and Qualcomm's patent infringement battle getting murkier past the day, information technology's condign more and more difficult to go along track of the high drama that is resembling the Apple tree-Samsung court battles from earlier this decade. What now seems to be the point of contention betwixt the two companies are a serial of UI-related patents that Qualcomm believes Apple copied from the Palm Pre, which ran the gesture-based webOS operating arrangement. The chipmaker is citing media reports to back up its claims of Apple's alleged condone of intellectual property rights.

Qualcomm had bought several of Palm's patents back in 2014 when the visitor was sold piecemeal to a number of firms, including, LG, TCL and Qualcomm, among others. The chipmaker is now challenge that the iPhone X's gesture-based multitasking mechanism is a direct re-create of the Pre'south "carte du jour-based multitasking system".Here's a video showing off the aforementioned:

As y'all can encounter, the video conspicuously shows that the iPhone X'due south gesture-based UI is in fact pretty like to webOS' gesture-based interface.

The latest salvo comes in the wake of Apple's recent lawsuit that accused Qualcomm of infringing upon viii of its patents related to bombardment life direction. The Cupertino giant sued the San Diego-based company for a sum of $1billion in the U.Due south., $145 million in China and an undisclosed amount in the U.One thousand.

Non one to take things lying downwardly, Qualcomm besides fired off its own lawsuit against Apple, filing as many as iii separate charges in a United states District Court, claiming that applied science used in the iPhone X was in violation of a whopping 16 of its patents related to power-management technologies and autofocus cameras. Qualcomm has already asked the U.s. International Trade Committee (USITC) to ban the import and sale of GSM versions of the iPhone X, 8, eight Plus, vii and 7 Plus that use Intel'southward modem. The CDMA versions of the devices, meanwhile, utilize Qualcomm's modems, and are exempt from the complaint.