Could you expound on what this means? Because Apple was the first to bring out a consumer-grade multi-touch screen, and I believe everyone was blown away by ho

Could you expound on what this means? Because Apple was the first to bring out a consumer-grade multi-touch screen, and I believe everyone was blown away by how thin their Mac Book Airs were compared to everyone else's efforts? edit: So I'm not sure what flat here is exactly referring to. Surface? What about all the tablets that preceded it, all the way back to the 90s with GO, Newton, and the like?