On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:39 PM, t.piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Feb 5, 2010, at 3:05 PM, David K Watson wrote: > >> Also, because of the many Android OS versions and hardware >> models, there is no guarantee that any particular Android app will work on >> any given Android phone. People like choice, sure, but they also need a >> degree of certainty to base their choices on. >> > > You must consider that Google is new to consumer hardware and Apple has had > decades of experience in this arena. Google is going to have to learn many > important lessons via the school of hard knocks. > > The story I heard on one of the Twit shows this was Apple asked Google not to enable multi-touch on the Droid. Apple believed it's patent was weak on multitouch and they did't believe it would survive a challenge. That doesn't make tons of sense but but lots of patent law applied to software doesn't. In addition there are multi touch capabilities in the Android OS- the shift key for one.
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