[maemo-developers] Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented

[From: Darius Jack]

Nothing wrong ;)
I have been developing basic multitouch applications for years.
It was just to point out
how close was Nokia to implement (to get the idea of) multitouch in
N 770 (looking really smart, no mechanics on keyboard, no keyboard).
And N 770 was touch screen, so many years before iPhone has been developed.

Multitouch is trendy and hot and I am really surprised what makes Nokia
not to implement multitouch into maemo.

Darius



--- On Tue, 2/9/08, Simon Budig <simon at budig.de> wrote:
From: Simon Budig <simon at budig.de>
Subject: Re: Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented
To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
Date: Tuesday, 2 September, 2008, 3:49 PM

Darius Jack (dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie) wrote:
> [...] N 770 ( first in the world multitouch Internet tablet). N 770
> was really multitouch gizmo (just try to move web page with 2
> fingers).

You're wrong here: what you're seeing when pressing multiple fingers on
the touchscreen is some kind of "average" position. Typically the
"mousepointer" ends up in the middle between the two fingers pressing
the screen, just try it in the drawing application.

The scrolling in the webbrowser just made you believe that it would be
doing something sensible, it really does not.

Bye,
        Simon

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