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BusinessWeek blows it: reports Apple has no Multi-Touch notebooks, ‘beaten’ by HP Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 09:05 AM EST "From the first time Steve Jobs demonstrated 'the pinch'—the two-finger gesture used to zoom in and out of photos and Web pages on the iPhone—some Apple observers assumed ...
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BusinessWeek: HP "out-touches" Apple
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Multi-touch gestures on a notebook ought to be delivered via the surface that's made to be touched, not the surface made to be viewed. On the iPhone those surfaces are one & the same because there's no other option.
The designers and developers at Apple know you want a fully touch-enabled laptop. So do the folks at HP. The difference is that Apple's staff are patient and careful enough to execute it in exactly the right way, not just the most obvious way.
[Via MacDailyNews] TUAWBusinessWeek: HP "out-touches" Apple originally appeared on ...
BusinessWeek’s Hesseldahl takes umbrage over criticism of his flawed Multi-Touch™ article
MacDailyNews —
BusinessWeek’s Hesseldahl takes umbrage over criticism of his flawed Multi-Touch™ article Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 06:04 PM EST "I’ve been getting lots and lots of email from irate readers who can’t stand what I wrote today about HP’s Touchsmart tx2 notebook," Arik Hesseldahl blogs for BusinessWeek. MacDailyNews Take: We bet you have. (See: BusinessWeek blows it: reports Apple has no Multi-Touch notebooks, ‘beaten’ by HP - November 19, 2008) Hesseldahl continues, "My point in this column was pretty straightforward, and nearly all of the people responding to it are in ...
CNBC’s Mason: Microsoft is clueless
MacDailyNews —
... . MacDailyNews Take: It's all about Gorilla Arm . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.]
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