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Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case (GigaOm)

Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case (GigaOm)

Posted Jun 16, 2012 23:06 UTC (Sat) by jtc (subscriber, #6246)
In reply to: Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case (GigaOm) by marduk
Parent article: Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case (GigaOm)

'a tap is a zero-length swipe.'

It's not true because a tap has duration - small, perhaps, compared to a swipe; but if it had no duration the device would not be able to detect it - i.e., it would not exist, it would be a <nothing>, not a tap.


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Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case (GigaOm)

Posted Jun 16, 2012 23:36 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

both a tap and swipe have length, duration, starting position, direction, and velocity.

for a tap, many of these values are zero, but you can encapsulate a tap into a swipe, if you really want to.

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