People, I really don't appreciate your language. It's unprofessional, and very un-Mac like.

#28: Well, then obviously you're not gay.

You have to have a .Mac account AND you have to have it set as your default account.

iPhone!

Jesus people read the patent. It's not patenting gestures, its patenting a method to interactively teach a command set to users while they use a device.

The patent is about interactive teaching of a command hierarchy to users, not about command hierarchies.

RTFP.

There's absolutely something new here. I had a one of those finger boards, but what they're explaining in this patent is a feedback mechanism to teach you how to gesture while you are gesturing.

For example, putting down three fingers would bring up icons on your screen explaining what you can do next.

It also goes into assigning functions to your own gestures, something that fingerworks was working on but never completed.

It will be replacing my iphone clock.

You imply that I bought the iPhone so I can be "special"? Is that why you buy technology, to feel technically superior to other people? Wow.

And yes, you are right, there was nothing wrong with my last smart phone. Nor was there anything wrong with my last CRT television, or my last mouse, or my previous car, or my previous SLR.

Hey, you know, I bet there was nothing wrong with the last version of anything you own as well.

What point, exactly, are you trying to make?

Here's some unretouched sample photos from the iPhone, near the bottom of the page:

http://protoskoot.dreamhosters.com/blog/?p=25