[Swordmaker]

I didn’t use the word cultist to refer to over a billion people. Plenty of people buy Apple products without insisting Apple did everything first. Much like how there are Beatles fans who enjoy the music but understand their actual place in history and Beatles cultists who insist they invented everything interesting in rock and roll even when members of the band acknowledge who they were copying.

Only the anti-Apple Hate Brigade read into what we post that "Apple did everything first." You seem to self-nominate yourself into that group by making that assumption. Apple was first with the multi-touch modern smartphone. They hold the patent on multi-touch capacitance screens. The only prior use capacitance screen on a phone was only single touch: the LG-KE850 Prada feature phone (using an Adobe Flash operating system), with only 8 megabytes of memory.

[discostu]

Here again YOU’RE deciding whether or not YOU are a cultist. We all know there’s folks out there that insist Apple did things first that they clearly did not. I didn’t say that you were in that list. And as for your shouting about multi-touch, who cares. Not part of this discussion.