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> multi-touch was what got the the smartphone revolution going Massive citation needed. When I bought the first iPod touch (at the time it was a gen 1 iPhone
by qbasic_forever 6y ago
> multi-touch was what got the the smartphone revolution going
Massive citation needed. When I bought the first iPod touch (at the time it was a gen 1 iPhone without the GSM modem) it was because it had a real web browser and not the BS 'mobile' browsers on my Windows Mobile smartphone. I could actually visit a store's website and find their hours, check if an item was in stock, etc. There wasn't even an app store back then... IIRC multitouch was only used for zooming into photos in the photos app.
- masswerk 6y agoPinch & zoom was the killer app to navigate normal websites (as opposed to dedicated XHTML + handheld-stylesheet). This is now for the most dead with `meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"` as a standard.