capacitive touch screens back then. Actually there were not capacitive touch screens back then. . . The first capacitive screen on a phone, which was a single touch device, was the LG-KE850 also known as the Prada, which was claimed to have been out before the iPhone. The other screens before that one, were all resistance touch. These are again FACTS, and you can do all the dancing about membranes, LED/photodiode grids and light pens, and Indium Tin oxide crap you want, none of them worked as a transparent multi-touch screen until Apple's engineers cracked the secret of how to do it and showed the world how and were awarded the patent on how. THEY get the royalties from everyone that makes multitouch screens for all kinds of devices.
Apple probably developed the best algorithms for interfacing with LCD touchscreens, but once again, I think you are probably giving them far more credit than they actually deserve. As near as I can tell, they just added a third button to a mouse, and pronounced it a magnificent accomplishment.
Apple probably developed the best algorithms for interfacing with LCD touchscreens, but once again, I think you are probably giving them far more credit than they actually deserve. As near as I can tell, they just added a third button to a mouse, and pronounced it a magnificent accomplishment.
You know Diogenes, it is absolutely astounding to me how people like you who are so abysmally ignorant about Apple products, technology, and history think they can come on these threads and tell an Apple user, and someone like me, who is intimately familiar and in fact an expert on Apple products, having owned a cross platform consulting business for over 35 years, something you just don't know anything at all about!
Apple Macs have been capable of handling double, triple, wheel, trackball mouses, and more for at least 25 years. . . and they will automatically recognize whatever inout device you plug into them, without installing drivers. The Mac has shipped with a five button mouse with a 360º scroll ball since 2005, and for the last six years, Apple's mouses are both double button but multi-touch sensitive trackpad top wireless mouses. Again, SHEESH!
Actually there were not capacitive touch screens back then. . . You keep telling me stuff, and when I check, you turn out to be wrong. I don't think you are purposely misleading me, but you really ought to check your statements before you make them.
The prototype x-y mutual capacitance touchscreen (left) developed at CERN in 1977 by Bent Stumpe, a Danish electronics engineer, for the control room of CERN’s accelerator SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron). This was a further development of the self-capacitance screen (right), also developed by Stumpe at CERN in 1972.
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These are again FACTS, and you can do all the dancing about membranes, LED/photodiode grids and light pens, and Indium Tin oxide crap you want, none of them worked as a transparent multi-touch screen until Apple's engineers cracked the secret of how to do it and showed the world how and were awarded the patent on how.
Now that statement is very funny in light of the fact that you are demonstrably wrong. Your "FACTS" don't seem to actually be facts, or are you going to claim that one of Apple's Engineers was Bent Stumpe from Denmark back in 1972? :)
I wonder if he is collecting royalties from Apple, etc?