A method to pass the lock screen and get into the operating system to use it. Users are required to slide their finger on a predefined position on the lock screen. Popularised by Apple's iPhone, and Apple has patented the whole vague idea, thus making it one of the most ridiculous patents yet.
There hardly could be a method to unlock the screen by doing a certain action on the screeen itself without violating that patent. For example, Apple also claimed that a tap on the screen is a 'zero-length sliding'. Microsoft introduced a picture password unlock screen to Windows 8, but that is also essentially a slide to unlock.
Google has improved and diversified the slide to unlock on Android in many ways, so that now they look so very different. Yet, Apple wants to ban Android products for this patent or wants the manufacturers to pay a ridiculously high patent fee for this.
There hardly could be a method to unlock the screen by doing a certain action on the screeen itself without violating that patent. For example, Apple also claimed that a tap on the screen is a 'zero-length sliding'. Microsoft introduced a picture password unlock screen to Windows 8, but that is also essentially a slide to unlock.
Google has improved and diversified the slide to unlock on Android in many ways, so that now they look so very different. Yet, Apple wants to ban Android products for this patent or wants the manufacturers to pay a ridiculously high patent fee for this.
A Japanese man: You know, we used to slide the door to open it and get into the room.
An Apple guy: Hey, that sounds like slide to unlock to me. You violated our patent! You'd better stop using that door.
A Japanese man: We had those since thousands years ago?
An Apple guy: Doesn't matter. We've got the patent. See you in the court.
An Apple guy: Hey, that sounds like slide to unlock to me. You violated our patent! You'd better stop using that door.
A Japanese man: We had those since thousands years ago?
An Apple guy: Doesn't matter. We've got the patent. See you in the court.
by typingcat August 15, 2012
Get the Slide to unlock mug.Speech during intoxication. Slurring or words that don't fit with each other.
An odd jump in a speech.
An odd jump in a speech.
by Sun Rhythms October 13, 2004
Get the Slidin Language mug.To ignore a call on your smartphone by sliding the red bar left instead of the green bar right to answer.
Matthew: "Dude, Carlynn just called, i totally slide lefted that bitch."
Zack: "Why, you don't want bothered?"
Matthew: "I had to watch Megan Good just to keep it up with her. I don't want that EVER again."
Zack: "Damn kid, thats harsh. But understandable."
Zack: "Why, you don't want bothered?"
Matthew: "I had to watch Megan Good just to keep it up with her. I don't want that EVER again."
Zack: "Damn kid, thats harsh. But understandable."
by ThatPrettyNilla February 24, 2012
Get the slide left mug."My computer is sloading! For fuck's sake!
by alfredopunkin July 13, 2013
Get the sloading mug.A type of media in which a set of spaced out images are displayed in a sequence to help visually express a story often paired with a narration or a song. Slidimation is similar to a slideshow but has a greater emphasis on smaller changes in position such as expressions and locations of a character as well as the occasional use of motion tweens to slide images across the canvas. Slidimation is often confused with animation as well as animatics, however, animation differs because it is a medium in which the illusion of movement is created by placing several frames in-between keyframes which slidimations lack, while the latter is simply one of the preliminary stages in the development of an animation. People who create slidimations, much like animators, are labeled "slidimators."
Slidimation is often confused with animation because both are popular mediums in which to tell a story using a sequence of images or drawings. An example of a popular Youtube slidimator would be Wolfychu.
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