Google axed Android multitouch at Apple's request

[happyandyv]

This is all a Bull. Apple is scared that Google Android is taking over. Only thing lacking is Multi touch. Its just matter of time some one comes out with a Nice looking phone.

APPLE STOPE BING SCARED AND SUCH A BITCH AND LET ANDROID HAVE MULTI TOUCH.

This is also very unfair to all the other industry as well. Just cause of Apple Patent you have wait for Apple to come up with muti touch. Imagine every peach of technology you own is only patent and made by 1 Company.

There is hundred of application to Multi touch and now its not possible NO THANKS TO APPLE.

I my self own a Macbook and love but Apple come on give it up plz!

...Now THAT is speculation lol.. Scared.. I would say they are posturing but.. wow..

Anyways..
@@Icky
@@Icky

Right now google has been using eyeball tracking tech to see where peoples vision is drawn... Wouldn't that turn into a great "input device"?

Just the twitch of a pupil and flick of an eyebrow to get to your favorite site lol.. No but seriously that will be fun to play with as we start seeing cameras put on the user side of the phone, passing 6mp, etc...

[Wrytch]

Yes, and when you get an incorrect bill you should self-immolate outside that business's office. That'll show 'em!

It makes absolutely no business sense to hold a grudge and intentionally damage your product on a competitor's platform.

I'm quite surprised (and saddened) that none of you have thought that Google would out-Apple Apple by inventing something better than multitouch, patenting it, and offer Apple to license its patent.

I was joking, but do like the comment by ickyfehmleh about the defeatist view many seem to have. Not sure where the feeling that the G1 has to chase iPhone is coming from.

icky is absolutely correct that spiteful retaliation has no place in development/business because the consumers suffer and progress stalls.

[gbk1]

I was joking, but do like the comment by ickyfehmleh about the defeatist view many seem to have. Not sure where the feeling that the G1 has to chase iPhone is coming from.

Grown men/woman cry over their cars and defend their preferences. Pride in ownership of a cool gizmo. Very 'humanly' natural to be defensive about this kind of stuff.

but eventually, maturity will set in.

[scrannel]

My wife supports multi-touch, not sure I'm worried about the phone.

[Mason_S]

Ya' know, all this fuss about multi-touch is a little puzzling to me. All of this can't possibly come from everyone's burning desire to be able to zoom in on photos with a pinch, can it? (BTW, Apple does not own that one) I really don't think, as has been said on this thread, that if multi-touch never makes it to Android (and lemme tell ya', that is a very unlikely conclusion to all of this), it'll be the end of the platform, or that there's nowhere to go from there. That is simply untenable, not to mention ridiculous.

There is so much more to the Android platform than this. There's more to the Android platform than anything that Apple can muster with the iPhone and their self-imposed regulations on cross-platforming. Android is a platform for connectivity and application development and execution. It has potential far beyond the G1 or even mobile phones for that matter. In the very near future we will see Android on MIDs and netbooks. We will see Android in many embedded systems. Before long, Android will be in our living rooms, kitchens, cars, restaurants, hotel rooms, "you are here" terminals at the mall; the horizons for this platform are enormous. Oh, and we will see a bevy of smartphones based on Android this summer from multiple handset makers and cell carriers. Do we think for a moment that the inability to zoom in on pictures with a pinch (without making poor Apple vewy vewy angwy anyway) is going to hold back this platform? Can we really imagine multi-touch not becoming a part of this platform as time goes on?

Also, there are applications of multi-touch beyond what Apple has patented that many developers can and will take advantage of in the very likely event that Google allows developers to begin to take advantage of the capacitive touch capabilities (again, with time. Let things surrounding the multi-touch controversy cool down a little and little by little multi-touch capabilities will creep into Android; likely from third party developers first as Google begins to allow it).

Anyway, just my thoughts. We are not chasing Apple, people. Google is a company of innovators and Android is the ultimate platform for innovation; both by Google and, most especially, for third-party devs.

[storm14k]

#1. Multitouch is seriously overrated.

#2. This is not news. This was asked as a question at the G1 launch event and they said that the G1 was certainly multi-touch capable but it was not included as a feature due to IP reasons. Did anybody actually watch the launch event?

[recline]

google needs to quit being apples bitch

[happyandyv]

Just found that HP, adobe, microsoft, blackberry, palm, sony and most netbook manufacturers all have or will soon have multi-touch devices of some sort. Put your pants back on google!

[gbk1]

Just found that HP, adobe, microsoft, blackberry, palm, sony and most netbook manufacturers all have or will soon have multi-touch devices of some sort. Put your pants back on google!

Just found? Where have you been?!

[G1FTW]

It my not be that important but still. It is obvious that the g1 is mt capable. multi touch is sitting in the g1's code but cannot be implemented because of google and apple's relationship.

google needs to leak the info on how to include multi touch, someone else needs to make an application or an update file out of it. That way, google doesn't infringe, g1 users get the feature that their phones were designed with.

The g1 had multi touch capabilty from the get go. that fact is enough for me to justify mass infdrigement of apple's patent.