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Touchscreen happened in iOS first. What? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus is just one counterexample of many

• kmavm 15y ago
  "Touchscreen that civilians care about."
  • rfrey 15y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman
• nirvana 15y ago
  That is not a touchscreen. That is a stylus driven OS. Much like the Newton, which preceded it.
  • vacri 15y ago
    Finger-responsive touchscreens were around long before Apple used them - they were just generally larger than the iphone. Surely you must have seen them somewhere, from museum displays to fast-food cash registers.
    • nirvana 15y ago
      The iPhone is not a "finger responsive touch screen". These screens are really easy to make-- they have a grid of sense lines and can tell if there's a finger at the intersection of two of them. They are completely confused if two fingers touch the screen at the same time. What the iPhone does is map the entire shape of a finger, as well as many other fingers, touching the screen to determine how many fingers, what orientation, etc. This is completely different. That you and others claim they are the same shows the frank dishonesty at the core of the anti-innovation crowd here on hacker news. I'm at a loss for the motivation of anti-innovation people to hang out on an ostensibly startup oriented site, but you have succeeded in ruining it.