According to Steve Jobs, Apple had a working tablet prototype in 2000, and it used multitouch gestures (like swipes). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/

According to Steve Jobs, Apple had a working tablet prototype in 2000, and it used multitouch gestures (like swipes). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/first-came-the-idea-for-a-tablet-jobs-says/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/first-came-the-idea... At the time, only a Public Beta of Mac OS X had been released, which certainly didn't have support for multitouch gestures. Geez, the iPod hadn't even been announced yet, and all Macs had PowerPC processors.