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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by bildung on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:42AM (#17151705)
To support the obviousness of multitouch interfaces Camperbob mentions: See this prototype from Synaptics from 2006: https://www.slashgear.com/synaptics-onyx-concept-live-demo-c...

The original iPhone used a Synaptics touchscreen IIRC, so it's pretty reasonable that Apple and every major phone manufacturer has been shown the Synaptics tech demo in 2006, probably earlier.

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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by sbuk on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:56AM (#17152320)
That tech demo came a year after Apple acquired FingerWorks; who had been producing and selling multitouch technologies since 1998.
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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by bildung on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:13AM (#17153314)
Thanks, didn't know that.
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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by sjwright on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:54AM (#17151981)
At best that is an iteration of Blackberry or Nokia-style smart phone interfaces. It doesn't look particularly impressive, even for 2006.
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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by bildung on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:15AM (#17153340)
That was the point: The evolution of stylus-based interfaces to multi-touch was clear to the major players in the field, and the direction the necessary UX changes had to evolve to were obvious.
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