Now you devolve to ad hominem attack, Diogenes, giving the lie to your screen name which implies a search for honesty. Good luck with that. Using ad hominem is the sign of the side of the lack of factual argument. If you lack facts, you attack the opponent. We have been discussing transparent multitouch screens on mobile digital devices. Prior to the iPhone, they simply did not exist. You can dance all you like, but facts are on my side on this discussion. You use Wikipedia. Good luck with that as well. Patents and patent law side with Apple as do case law. . . and me. YOU simply don't know what you are talking about, as demonstrated your statements about having to "look up" things. Wikipedia is not considered a reliable source for anything.
For example, I find it amusing that the Wikipedia article gives more attention to the fewer than 3 million Microsoft multitouch devices than it does to the over 2 Billion Android and 1. 1 billion iOS devices that use multitouch screens. That is evidence of preferential editing by people with agendas.
You have an agenda to find Apple and me lying about anything. . . to assign a negative intent to their claim. It does not exist nor do they need to do that. Apple has thousands of patents in their name. . . yet you somehow need to deny that simple fact to claim that Apple never invents anything. That is your desperate need to prove your false and irrational agenda of non-innovation by Apple. You demonstrate you do not even understand what innovation, invention, or design are.
You thought that was an ad hominem attack? I guess your perspective is so different from my own, you don't even understand what things look like from mine. No, I wasn't attacking you. I was expressing pity. From my perspective, your claims/arguments totally flopped. Every thing you attempted to prove, I found evidence to the contrary. (And whining about Wikipedia impresses nobody.)
I was going to write up another commentary in which I took apart your last message, but I decided that I didn't like the way it made me feel.
You demonstrate you do not even understand what innovation, invention, or design are.
I can tell what they are not. Taking credit for the work of others and claiming it as your own. Patent trolling, and rent seeking are also not what I would consider "innovation", at least not the sort of innovation I find admirable.
Looking through some of your posting history I get a couple of impressions. You are a big big big Apple fan, (and therefore seemingly lack objectivity when analyzing your paramour) and I also suspect you make a lot of money off of Apple.
As Mark Twain noted, "You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is."
You may think i'm hard on Apple, but you haven't heard what I think of Microsoft. As bad of an opinion as you believe me to have regarding Apple, I can assure you that what I think of Microsoft is much worse. :)
The Woz I like. I have no respect for Bill Gates and Co.