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Well, you'll see what you want to see, I guess - but 50 seconds into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo&feature=player_detailpage#t=50s http://www.youtu
by anthonyb 14y ago
Well, you'll see what you want to see, I guess - but 50 seconds into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo&feature=player_detailpage#t=50s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo&feature=playe...
He makes a pinch gesture, and the circle on the CRT gets bigger and smaller. If that's not pinch to zoom, or the precursor to it, I don't know what is.
Which is the whole problem with Apple's case. They seem to like to pretend that they invented everything that's used on the iPhone, but this sort of research has been going on for decades.
- anthonyb 14y agoupdate: I think the most striking thing about watching that pinch to zoom thing is that he's doing it idly while thinking/talking about something else - it's no big deal for him. I suspect that he's been using gestures like it for quite a while at that point.
- sc00ter 14y agoYou're right about one thing - you see what you want to see. I'd swear if asked that he's using his thumb and finger to draw a rectangle shape on the desk representing the keyboard he describes at the same time, but there's no denying the circle on the screen, even if just a shape bounding his touch points, rather than an object he selected and zoomed. The later clip with the two fingered multitouch zoom of the person that recoiledsnake links to is more compelling, even if the gesture doesn't quite match that we know as pinch to zoom.