[SJSAMPLE]

My brother-in-law invented the precursor to the iPod/iPad interface at MIT in 1990.

Here’s a link to one of his demonstrations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdMUt0VHlP8

He demonstrated this system to Stephen Jobs, who discounted it as useless technology and then stole it. None of his lawsuits could gain traction, so now he gets paid WELL by Samsung to present this video and explain away Apple’s concept of “prior art” during these suits.

[piytar]

Wow! You’re brother-in-law was WAY ahead of his time!!!

[Swordmaker]

Sorry my FRiend, but all of those Gestures were existing things in software in the Amiga computer desktop publishing package called PageStream from the mid 1980s. It was ported to the Mac by the early 1990s. It is still available for Amiga, Mac, Windows, Atari, and Linux. I used it to create many pages of graphics and was quite well paid for it.

[Swordmaker]

He demonstrated this system to Stephen Jobs, who discounted it as useless technology and then stole it. None of his lawsuits could gain traction, so now he gets paid WELL by Samsung to present this video and explain away Apple’s concept of “prior art” during these suits.

Incidentally, those gestures have nothing at all to do with the iPhone or iPad drawing systems, or the operation of those devices. In addition, it is impossible for him to have demonstrated it to Steve Jobs of Apple at that time because Steve was NOT even associated with Apple in 1990 to 1997. Apple, minus Steve Jobs, had also already developed gestures for the Newton handwriting recognition system in 1987-1989, so they could not have stolen those.

Apple's ability to move objects around a screen and draw on a screen pre-dated your relative's development by at least eight years, as Apple draw was always a part of AppleOS from 1982, which included the ability to lasso multiple objects to group them.