Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Oct 2008 16:41 UTC
Who said community pressure doesn't work with big companies? Apple has announced in a note titled "To Our Developers" that it has removed the non-disclosure agreement for iPhone developers, stating it placed "too much of a burden" on iPhone developers. The NDA was one of the two major problem points among iPhone developers, so the community has responded in a way that can only be described as rejoicing.
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Member since:2007-05-12
Just citing multitouch which existed before they did it.
Of course it did. The company that developed the multitouch technology used in iPhones and which Apple acquired in 2005, Fingerworks, have been releasing multitouch products, mainly keyboards, since at least the early 2000s. Multi-input display tracking itself goes back to at least the 1970s. I personally haven't seen Apple claim they have invented the concept of mutitouch. They've always claimed, and certainly still do, that they have very ingeniously incorporated it into a mobile phone - which is completely true; it is quite an ingenious solution.
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2006-09-30
Just as if they invented everything of it...
They merely copied many existing technologies into a coherent design.
Just citing multitouch which existed before they did it.
Besides, software patents sux. Software is speech!