Also, no one is claiming apple invented capacitive screens, so throwing out that little barb does nothing to help your argument.
Lol at your snippiness. Go have a beer and easy down fella. And for the record I wasn't "arguing" anything.
*EDIT - one last thing since you said pinch to zoom was basically non-existent before the iPhone, there was a product called the DiamondTouch developed in 2001, it has multi-touch and they used the same basic pinch to zoom/shrink gestures that the iPhone used in it's 2007 release:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/08/pi...-demonstrated-to-apple-by-adam-bogue-in-2003/
It was also demonstrated to Apple in 2003. Watch the video at the bottom. Pretty obvious where Apple got the idea from.
Rev.
Probably because they weren't yet using multi-touch capable capacitive screens - something Apple didn't even invent.
Rev.
exactly. How would pinch-to-zoom even work on a blackberry phone? Pinch-to-zoom was already used on computers with touch screen and on tvs before Apple put them on phones.
Cites please.
I personally don't know of any TV's or major consumer market devices that used pinch to zoom before the iPhone, But there were some products, pinch to zoom was on the Diamond Touch many years before Appple used it and the designer of it said he demonstrated it to Apple in 2003. I did a quick search and apparently there was also Microsoft Surface 1.0 which was announced in 2007 and shipped in 2008, it too had pinch to zoom. There's a video that demonstrates it in this wiki page:
Microsoft PixelSense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The concept has also been done in movies such as Minority Report in 2002. TV's though? None that I know of.
Rev.
Consumer market is the key word.
Who's discussing the patents? Apple doesn't even have a pinch to zoom patent.I'm not quite sure why you believe that patents require a company to release a product to 'the consumer marketplace', or why you think a prior art patent would specifically have to call out being for a mobile phone.
Apparently best to ignore your trolling attempts if are going to be intellectually dishonest.
Show me where myself and Rev were discussing patents. We weren't.
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If pinch to zoom and double tap are so obvious, then why did no phones use it prior to the iPhone, but all smartphones use it after?
Not debating the validity of the patent,
I personally wasn't discussing patents when taking about pinch to zoom but more the concept and how many claim Apple conceptualized it. I went through the thread though and found this by you:
Rev.
Interesting article thought you all might like....
South Korea Reassesses Its Great Imitator
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/t...assesses-samsung-after-battle-with-apple.html
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