Let me play devil's advocate for a minute...

Posted Feb 2, 2009 23:33 UTC (Mon) by ajross (guest, #4563)
In reply to: Let me play devil's advocate for a minute... by mattdm
Parent article: Apple's touch-screen patent

and there's no real evidence that anyone would have if Apple hadn't thought of it

Oh, come on. Lieutenant Commander Data was using multitouch interfaces every week on my television two decades ago. Argue that Apple did it "better" if you want. But asserting that no one would ever thought of holding two fingers down at once (!) is just ridiculous.