Styluses and resistive touchscreens were resigned to the scrap heap soon after.
Apple didn't invent multi-touch either, but they moved gestures from a futuristic novelty in Minority report and Black & White into something that regular people use every day. Swiping and pinching have entered our UI lexicon with amazing speed.
Apple changed the "face" of smartphones; this is what Android looked like before the iPhone came along: http://gizmodo.com/334909/google-android-prototype-in-the-wi...
Styluses and resistive touchscreens were resigned to the scrap heap soon after.
Apple didn't invent multi-touch either, but they moved gestures from a futuristic novelty in Minority report and Black & White into something that regular people use every day. Swiping and pinching have entered our UI lexicon with amazing speed.