Multitouch hack for T-Mobile G1: Video Demo

[Paging Dr B]

This mod made me root my phone. Its wonderful and i cant believe we didnt have it from the start. Apple owns lots of patents but they do not have a patent that would prevent this from working on a non rooted phone.

thanks engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/a...epth-analysis/

[wildstar]

They definitely don't have an enforcable patent on the pinching and multitouch though apple claims since they were the first on a mobile device they have innovated. Plus they are trying to reach beyond and copyright the word multitouch and all gestures are their domain

But this video from 2005 shows a developer at a ted conference demo pinching panning flicking etc long before apple

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY"]YouTube - Multi-touch interface (from Adobe TED)[/ame]

[wildstar]

The pinching and stuff starts arounf 2:40 in the video if I remember correctly.

One thing to note though is that although google is the right size to take on apple and squash their claims you have to remember that there is a google board member on the apple board so... guaranteed they intentionally made a deal up front