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Didn't the Microsoft surface table project that predated apple multitouch already show rotation?

• Toutouxc 3y ago
  The original Surface was unveiled a few months (May 30, 2007) after the iPhone (January 9, 2007). Not sure who implemented the idea first in the lab, but probably neither of them.
  • Retric 3y ago
    Yea, Apple got most of this by buying a company that started working on this stuff in 1999. You can argue about the patents, but in this case it was beneficial for a small innovative company. Also, the original idea for pinch zooming dates back to 1985, but I have no idea what that UI was actually like.
  • cma 3y ago
    This MS patent predated Apple's earliest, had most of multitouch but I think rotation was a fixed gesture by a set number of degrees https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2013117985A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2013117985A/en