-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The ubiquitous zooming and rotating examples are not convincing me at all. > > They seem pretty cool to me. > >> So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone? > > How do you right-click on a touchscreen? The old way has been to hold > down the stylus for some timeout period. But with multitouch there
> disassembled the iPhone (and the Air) and discovered that; I haven't > found anything on Broadcom's site. So I don't understand if Apple was > able to coerce them into making it exclusive. I mean, Apple bought Dell used to be attractive because they had exclusive availability for certain technologies for some period, eg in the early days only Dells had UXGA LCD at a reasonable price. So it wouldn't surprise me Apple had the same strategic deal they blew money on for exclusivity on critical technology they don't actually own the rights to. However I agree with Mickey, it is dangerous to focus overmuch on every technology that exists on any competitor product and try to stuff everything in the one device. It will be a much better device that is perfectly adapted to the intended genuinely useful use-case and that is not the same as ticking every single box in terms of features. Unless it hits a nail on the head for genuine use multitouch or other $COMPETITOR_FEATURE can just be a distraction. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHzr90OjLpvpq7dMoRAlMCAJ0dWlSH37zbovg2GGayjRrChCGIYgCdGWRi 0bDTfoXh0dsd8wOREPMA0A8= =0k/p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community