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It's a very refined implementation of an idea. Try pinch and zoom on an iPad and then try it on an Android device.

• gjm11 14y ago
  In so far as this is true -- that Android devices' pinch-and-zoom doesn't behave at all the same as iPads', and that this makes them much worse to use -- those Android devices have not copied what Apple did. (I have no opinion about how much Samsung actually copied from Apple or whether what they did was legal; I haven't looked carefully enough at the case. I'm not passing comment on that. Just saying that you can't reasonably say both (1) that what Apple have rights over is a very refined implementation of pinch-and-zoom that differs from anything you'll see on an Android device, and (2) that a maker of Android devices copied it. At least, not without a further explanation of how they screwed it up so badly.)
  • Tycho 14y ago
    Pinch to zoom wasn't actually something Apple was pursuing Samsung over, apparently.