On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Shawn Rutledge</b> <<a href="mailto:shawn.t.rutledge@gmail.com">shawn.t.rutledge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yes I agree with all your points.<br><br>I suspect the Apple patents are on the interaction techniques, and<br>possibly on some specific hardware. Obviously multi-touch existed a<br>few years ago (FingerWorks was around, and I think the FTIR method was
<br>invented even earlier). We will see how the lawsuits turn out, which<br>patents Apple can defend and which they cannot. (Lawsuits would seem<br>to be inevitable given the flurry of activity which the iPhone has<br>provoked.)
</blockquote><div><br>Multitouch screens are around so much time that apple can have patents just on their specific implementation. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
However some of the interactions which only involve one finger on the<br>iPhone, should still be possible with a conventional touchscreen (for<br>example, "flicking" to scroll a page).</blockquote><div><br>That's correct.
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A physically larger screen would be nice to read, and I personally<br>would put up with the larger overall size (especially if it makes up
<br>for it by being thinner); but people have their stereotypes about how<br>big a phone is "too big," and something larger than the iPhone will<br>not sell as well. </blockquote><div><br> A good idea would be to use the so-much-talked-about-but-never-used e-paper: simply a small e-paper attached to the back of the phone, which can be rolled out to have a bigger screen. Some sort of medieval-pergament-sort of look. Wold be great IMO. The normal phone for normal applications, the e-paper for browsing, reading, whathing movies, etc.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(If people could just get away from holding the<br>whole thing up to their ears like a brick, it would help. Maybe use a
<br>bluetooth headset? but I don't use one myself either.)</blockquote><div><br>Headsets aren't always well-seen by people, so I would force them to use them.<br></div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>My corner of the web:
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