[Swordmaker]

Yes. Odd isn't it? At least from your perspective. My guess is that the author considered Apples achievements more as improvements/variations on a theme rather than groundbreaking developments... which is how I see them.

Actually it's not. Look at the title of the article, which is the focus of the article. . . It IS big screen touch surfaces. And Apple has many ground breaking patents, innovations, and developments to its name. YOUR blindness won't allow you to see them.

I've never claimed they have. You've chosen to interpret what Apple has correctly claimed, the spin put on it by anti-Apple critics, and your own bias to claim they have claimed they have invented what they have not claimed.

[DiogenesLamp]

It IS big screen touch surfaces.

Yes, obviously large LCD screens with capacitance sense multi-touch screens are completely different technology than are the small ones.

And Apple has many ground breaking patents, innovations, and developments to its name.

I'm sure they do. Probably some of them are even valid by what I consider objective standards, but what I see would look more appropriate as a copyright rather than a patent.

I have not gotten deep into the methodology of multi-touch capacitance screens, but I would wager the bulk of it's functionality comes from interpretive software, not hardware.