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> There were no multi-touch devices before the iPhone EDIT I see that in another comment you refine y our statement to mean, only multi touch capacitance. Our

> There were no multi-touch devices before the iPhone EDIT I see that in another comment you refine y our statement to mean, only multi touch capacitance. Our technology uses camera to achieve multi touch. This is simple false. I worked for a company that made touch screens in the early 2000's. We had multi touch in 2000. Our products are sold to schools where more than 1 million kids go to a classroom with one in it each and every day. Please don't say things like "there were no multi touch devices before the iPhone" when this is so provably false. There was a multi billion dollar market of multi touch devices in schools before the iPhone was first revealed.

nirvana 15y ago
There were no multi-touch devices before the iPhone was introduced. Nobody has provided a single piece of evidence of someone else showing the same technology. I never said there were no touch devices, and there were, in fact, "multi-touch" devices where your touch closed two switches. This is not the same. The real problem is, either you're so ignorant of the technology in question that you don't realize your claim is false... or that your ideology leads you to not care. BTW, if you want to make a claim like that, you could at least provide a citation of the actual name of the product so I can research it. But I don't think you care... you jut want to assert I'm wrong ,and act like you've proven me wrong, when the reverse is true. Its sad that Hacker News has such a contingent of anti-intellectual, anti-technology, anti-innovation people that you can post these kinds of lies and not feel any shame. Well, I guess that's not quite true. You felt enough shame to omit the name of the product you're "citing".
- chollida1 15y ago
  Smart boards were multi touch well before 2007 and selling quite well.
- chollida1 15y ago
  http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=26066 http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.... > "Users can also place a finger on the screen and touch another finger to the right of it for a right mouse click. These advanced mouse features eliminate the need to press extra buttons or find scroll bars on the screen." >" DViT technology, introduced by SMART in March 2003, uses proprietary digital cameras and sophisticated software to pinpoint contact by a finger or stylus on a display. "

nirvana 15y ago

There were no multi-touch devices before the iPhone was introduced. Nobody has provided a single piece of evidence of someone else showing the same technology. I never said there were no touch devices, and there were, in fact, "multi-touch" devices where your touch closed two switches. This is not the same. The real problem is, either you're so ignorant of the technology in question that you don't realize your claim is false... or that your ideology leads you to not care. BTW, if you want to make a claim like that, you could at least provide a citation of the actual name of the product so I can research it. But I don't think you care... you jut want to assert I'm wrong ,and act like you've proven me wrong, when the reverse is true. Its sad that Hacker News has such a contingent of anti-intellectual, anti-technology, anti-innovation people that you can post these kinds of lies and not feel any shame. Well, I guess that's not quite true. You felt enough shame to omit the name of the product you're "citing".

chollida1 15y ago
Smart boards were multi touch well before 2007 and selling quite well.
chollida1 15y ago
http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=26066 http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.... > "Users can also place a finger on the screen and touch another finger to the right of it for a right mouse click. These advanced mouse features eliminate the need to press extra buttons or find scroll bars on the screen." >" DViT technology, introduced by SMART in March 2003, uses proprietary digital cameras and sophisticated software to pinpoint contact by a finger or stylus on a display. "