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A Multi-Touch iPhone OS Layer On Top of Mac OS X?

Thursday February 25, 2010 3:11 pm PST by
In a NYTimes' blog post, Nick Bilton describes how PCs aren't as easy to use as the iPhone, and explores why the iPhone OS simply can't be used in a future iteration of Mac OS X. Bilton quotes a former senior Apple engineer who explains that implementing global multi-touch support onto the existing Mac OS X would be a hard task. While Apple has added multi-touch features into a few apps, the...

Apple Working on Advanced Gesturing and Multi-Touch Version of iWork

Saturday January 9, 2010 9:01 am PST by
The New York Times offers some additional tidbits that might come in the rumored Apple Tablet. According to former Apple employees, Apple has been working on advanced multi-touch gesturing that was originally pioneered by FingerWorks. Apple acquired FingerWorks a number of years ago and has been leveraging their multi-touch technology in their latest products. This news shouldn't be...