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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by bsimpson on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:26PM (#18365414)
They were the first to mass market capacitive touch/multitouch. I believe they acquired many of the underlying technologies, but so far as I know, they were the first to ship a multitouch user interface with a capacitive touchscreen.
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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by briandear on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:02PM (#18366247)
Multitouch was an Apple invention. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1036701/US7479949.pdf
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