First, patents are off topic. (And potentially damaging to what google
engineers can do or work on, regardless of validity, etc etc etc. No,
really.)

Second, IIRC the patent is -specific- gestures tied to -specific-
actions. Lots of devices have multitouch using other gestures. This is
probably one of them.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Kaj Bjurman<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think it has been granted, and they have probably filed the patent
> to other countries as well. (But companies can still license it from
> apple)
>
> On 1 Juli, 21:15, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The patent, if granted, would only valid in the US, so there are no
>> issues that would stop a far eastern OEM producing a device for a non-
>> US carrier.
>>
>> Al.
>>
>> On Jul 1, 2:27 pm, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > 2009/7/1 CraigsRace <[email protected]>
>>
>> > > It's not an error.  Here is a video of the HTC Hero, you can clearly
>> > > see the multi touch support (zooming):
>> > >http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/htchero.html
>>
>> > > Back on topic.  Will the Android SDK support multi touch?
>>
>> > What HTC apps support multi-touch, and is the source available?
> >
>

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