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What both you and grandparent are missing is the biggest iPhone touch innovation of all: multitouch. Multitouch was invented largely by a one-person startup tha
by WoodenChair 7y ago
What both you and grandparent are missing is the biggest iPhone touch innovation of all: multitouch. Multitouch was invented largely by a one-person startup that Apple purchased, and the iPhone became the first device to mass-produce it. The book The One Device covers its development well: https://amzn.to/2lrbKA7 https://amzn.to/2lrbKA7
- erpellan 7y agoI owned a fingerworks keyboard in 2003. The multi touch and gestures were amazing. And it was physically painful to type on. Try touch typing on a solid surface for any length of time. Fingertip bruises are no fun. The company mysteriously vanished shortly after announcing an after market multitouch keyboard for the iBook...
- WoodenChair 7y agoThat's the company that was purchased by Apple, as described in the book I linked to above.
- duncanawoods 7y agoIMHO multi-touch is really overrated in significance. The only multi finger gesture I use is pinch zoom and it’s like once a week. If that was a widget or triple tapping or something, I wouldnt notice. The improvements to touch that made it magical was the super responsive typing and momentum scrolling and it’s all just one fingered.
- nicoburns 7y agoSuper responsive typing actually does depend on multitouch, because if you type fast then you will have multiple fingers touching different keys at the same time.
- duncanawoods 7y agoIt's a stretch to call that multi-touch. The key press events are still a serialised stream of single finger touches. When people have spoken about multi-touch features and patents they have invariably been referring to chords and gestures.
- scarface74 7y agoFrom the app standpoint it is, but not from the actual implementation algorithm.