This week google shipped multi-touch for 2.1.1 OS which is on the Nexxus 1.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:56 PM, John Duncan Yoyo <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:39 PM, t.piwowar <[email protected]> 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. > > > -- > John Duncan Yoyo > -------------------------------o) > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
