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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by ralfd on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:26AM (#15080500)
>> when I was watching the keynote live, and Jobs swiped his finger to scroll, I audibly gasped.

> Palm OS apps were using swipe to scroll for several years before that. As far back as at least 2002.

I don't know how good Palm OS was at that time, but the contrast between the iPhone and the rest of the industry was blinding 2007:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMzg70MIZCo

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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by dkonofalski on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:18PM (#15094146)
That is seriously laughable how bad that is. The parent to your comment either doesn't remember what things were like prior to the iPhone or they're intentionally ignoring the differences.
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