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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John Duncan Yoyo
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