Lots of things like pinch-to-zoom, auto-switching the phone from portrait to landscape mode depending on how it was rotated, basically the actually-usable-as-a-browser features that are part of every modern touchscreen, were originally popularized by Apple. They were the first to make a touchscreen UI that rivaled a desktop computer instead of a pretty substandard WAP interface.
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ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 year agoApple purchased their touch screen division from people who had been working on touchscreens for decades before them.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
drev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you saying that other people had been working on and creating what became Apple’s mobile phone touchscreen interface, and they just bought the already near-finished product?
Or if you’re trying to correct me (I assume you’re not), I did acknowledge that apple didn’t invent the touch screen or touch screen phone.