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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by duncanawoods on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:08AM (#20438952)
IMHO multi-touch is really overrated in significance. The only multi finger gesture I use is pinch zoom and it’s like once a week. If that was a widget or triple tapping or something, I wouldnt notice.

The improvements to touch that made it magical was the super responsive typing and momentum scrolling and it’s all just one fingered.

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by nicoburns on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:56AM (#20439342)
Super responsive typing actually does depend on multitouch, because if you type fast then you will have multiple fingers touching different keys at the same time.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by duncanawoods on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:13AM (#20439679)
It's a stretch to call that multi-touch. The key press events are still a serialised stream of single finger touches. When people have spoken about multi-touch features and patents they have invariably been referring to chords and gestures.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by scarface74 on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:55AM (#20439938)
From the app standpoint it is, but not from the actual implementation algorithm.
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