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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 probab
by 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 agoYea, 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 agoThis 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