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2007-05-12
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.