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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by qbasic_forever on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:49AM (#26681974)
> multi-touch was what got the the smartphone revolution going

Massive citation needed. When I bought the first iPod touch (at the time it was a gen 1 iPhone without the GSM modem) it was because it had a real web browser and not the BS 'mobile' browsers on my Windows Mobile smartphone. I could actually visit a store's website and find their hours, check if an item was in stock, etc. There wasn't even an app store back then... IIRC multitouch was only used for zooming into photos in the photos app.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by masswerk on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:53PM (#26683651)
Pinch & zoom was the killer app to navigate normal websites (as opposed to dedicated XHTML + handheld-stylesheet). This is now for the most dead with `meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"` as a standard.
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