http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
LOL]]>Feb 19th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
Yo dummy? I can see where you got your education from.

If you read my post it was stating the actual gesture to be standardized/patented and able to be utilized by others. Not just patenting them dummy! Read into things a bit more prior to replying like a 13 year-old.]]>Feb 19th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
"...Apple is a patent bully."

um, yeah. they got screwed big time by a certain, unnamed, but rather well-known software company. i would imagine they've learned to protect their ideas with a vengeance.]]>Feb 19th 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
Context menus are simple and easy to remember. This multitouch gimickery with a half bazilion ways to use unnatural and finger twisting gestures on a 3" pad isn't simple or easy to remember. ]]>Feb 19th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
Mine are.]]>Feb 19th 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
First of all, the existing multi-touch functionality present on the iPhone and new Macbook Air is actually very intuitive and incredibly easy to master in a short time. I'm sure the more advanced gestures will take a little bit of extra practice to learn, but will definitely enhance the user experience. If *ANYONE* can move us away from the current stagnant desktop metaphor to an entirely new intuitive interface that finally exploits our five digits, it would SURELY be Apple. Even the most fanatical anti-apple fanboy will admit that they are literally the best in the world at creating mainstream intuitive software interfaces.

Stick to context menus? are you serious? Context menus are the scurge of software. Yeah let's stick with 25 year old technology and not dare challenge the status quo because the existing system "works". Back when Bell Labs created the first GUI, you would have been one of the guys ridiculing the concept of a mouse with crap like "why change it? The keyboard works great!".

Besides, no matter whether any new idea for an interface paradigm ever gets adopted, wouldn't you agree it is much better to attempt to innovate than to sit back with the "ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality? Good god, I can only imagine if every R&D center was run with that attitude.

For IT pros, designers, developers, and geeks, keyboard shortcuts allow very fast use of specialized software. However, this requires a lot of time to be invested, and with each new application or operating system, you have to learn them all over again. Worse yet, only a small amount of key combinations have been somewhat standardized across different apps, making for a real headache.
This is the best we got and for most people, AKA the 90% that don't use a computer 10 hours/day, this is not an option. They have only the mouse cursor and end up drowning in menus and toolbars.

I don't know if or how a multi-touch paradigm will overcome these existing problems, or whether it will truly become the next generation of computer interfaces or will be relegated to a few select entertainment uses. But in the end, I sure am hopeful that at least some companies are working on it. And for that, I give Apple big props!
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That was sarcasm. It would just make you look stupid and would be impossible to control properly]]>Feb 19th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
I'm not an apple fanboy and I don't like the iPhone. Well that's not true. It works, it's just overhyped and overpriced, using mostly old-ish technology.

but I certainly wouldn't feel one up, in public or elsewhere.]]>Feb 19th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
And copy and paste can be yours all for the low low price of a 20 dollar upgrade! I agree with Matt. Is there a reason why they can't just use a context menu?]]>Feb 19th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/]]>Feb 19th 2008 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 20th 2008 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Same gesture with your hand in a sock = sock puppet = not fun? ]]>Feb 19th 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/
Aren't we all waiting for the tablet mac? All these gestures are only a preparation for the big touch pad, I am sure. And I am also sure that they will implement a beautifully new type of UI for that one, too!

Can't wait...]]>Feb 19th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Especially in notebooks, how useful could this be? We either use mice and if we're on the go keyboard shortcuts work much faster anyway. Apple and their dumbing down of everything is sooo American (no offense just a commonly held perception in Europe).
Apple products are pretty, the more effeminate breed of gadgets, I'd take a good ol hair Winmo anytime.]]>Feb 19th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/did it ever occur to you that if you have more than 50 contacts in each letter in the alphabet, you will still be scrolling through a long list of say M entries, even if you punch that iphone mini alphabet of yours? oh.. i forgot.. iphone fanboys don't have much friends and contacts to call.. that explains the short contacts lists..]]>Feb 19th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 28th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/I know about the alphabet shortcut but it still doesn't cut the mustard for me.
P.S. I got suckered cuz I acknowledge that the iPhone was a significant step forward in terms of Cell phone UIs, I just had to try it first hand. I consider it a worth wile investment, if for no other reason, than to learn it is best to stay away from Apple products in the future :D]]>Feb 19th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/Feb 19th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/]]>Feb 19th 2008 6:46PM