On 7/24/07, Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes I agree with all your points. I suspect the Apple patents are on the interaction techniques, and possibly on some specific hardware. Obviously multi-touch existed a few years ago (FingerWorks was around, and I think the FTIR method was invented even earlier). We will see how the lawsuits turn out, which patents Apple can defend and which they cannot. (Lawsuits would seem to be inevitable given the flurry of activity which the iPhone has provoked.)
Multitouch screens are around so much time that apple can have patents just on their specific implementation. However some of the interactions which only involve one finger on the
iPhone, should still be possible with a conventional touchscreen (for example, "flicking" to scroll a page).
That's correct. A physically larger screen would be nice to read, and I personally
would put up with the larger overall size (especially if it makes up for it by being thinner); but people have their stereotypes about how big a phone is "too big," and something larger than the iPhone will not sell as well.
A good idea would be to use the so-much-talked-about-but-never-used e-paper: simply a small e-paper attached to the back of the phone, which can be rolled out to have a bigger screen. Some sort of medieval-pergament-sort of look. Wold be great IMO. The normal phone for normal applications, the e-paper for browsing, reading, whathing movies, etc. (If people could just get away from holding the
whole thing up to their ears like a brick, it would help. Maybe use a bluetooth headset? but I don't use one myself either.)
Headsets aren't always well-seen by people, so I would force them to use them. -- My corner of the web: http://ramsesoriginal.wordpress.com My dream, my world: http://abenu.wordpress.com
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