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

[From: Darius Jack]

2 finger scrolling was meant as blob recognition feature.

Darius



--- On Wed, 3/9/08, Eric Warnke <ericew at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Eric Warnke <ericew at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented
> To: dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org, "Simon Budig" <simon at budig.de>
> Date: Wednesday, 3 September, 2008, 3:38 PM
> 2 finger scrolling is not a feature unique to multi-touch. 
> It's been
> available for older track pads for years.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Darius Jack
> <dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> > Sorry Simon, but it works as semi-multitouch.
> >
> > I have discovered this feature opening my Semantic WWW
> Magazines
> > in maemo.
> > With 2 fingers pressed I can move Welcome page
> horizontally, like in iPod Touch.
> >
> > 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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