Comments on: Android Multi-Touch Conspiracy? Rubin Says No

By: Rex D.

Rex D. — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:57:08 +0000

You all are lucky to be alive and to have the freedom and money to even afford a cell phone. Spoiled brats! All of ya!!

By: Abrown

Abrown — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:25:16 +0000

Oh, the ignorant rant…sadly most opposing multi touch don’t understand that it has more to do with than just web browsing. But I guess you can double tap to zoom in on pictures and web if you prefer.
I would like to have more multi touch in my phone. Virtual keyboards, web browsing, photo viewing and editing, swipes, gestures; all make the experience easier and more intuitive, and would benefit from multi touch. Just because you hate the iPhone doesn’t mean you have to hate on multi touch (which wasn’t invented by Apple, they just like to be anal about it).

By: tristan

tristan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:43:47 +0000

I think there is a small amount of driver sabotage going on behind the scenes.

It may *work* but if you put it next an iPod/iPhone there is no question that the touch screen is %1000 percent better. Hearing all the conspiracy of apple patenting MT i would believe google & apple could settle with crippled drivers and try not make a big deal of it.

Now I may be wildly off track about this, but there is no excuse for the touchscreen response of this $600 droid.

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Multi-Touch Coming To Most Motorolas? | Android Phone Fans — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:51:06 +0000

[...] multi-touch standoff has reached a boiling point. Unfortunately, we’re unsure who is standing where. There seems to be proprietary knowledge standing between different parties, in different regions, [...]

By: GW

GW — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:16:18 +0000

To all you PINCH-ZOOM addicts. Since you’re accustomed to applying the same technique to your tiny penises, I’m sure you’ll get many years of pleasure with your iToys.

For the more intelligent adults among us that have normal size appendages, although I did enjoy the P-Z novelty when I got my first rotten Apple (I only say rotten because I suffered through 4 defective iPhones), I currently find a quick double-tap to give me a much more predictable result and more importantly I can still drag one finger across my Android screen to see any part of the page I choose. I can also use that same finger to tell the world what I think of this ridiculous debate.

I enjoyed a MyTouch3g for 5 months and now am enjoying my new Nexus One even more and believe it or not iPhans, I’ll be sleeping like a baby tonight without pinching and zooming myself.

By: zack

zack — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:55:34 +0000

Rooted Droid running 2.0.1 sholes.info edition and I have multitouch and tap to zoom in the native apps! As well as wireless tethering, overclocked, and 2.1 native apps. So droid really does, software by google does not.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:19:32 +0000

rob, the last time I checked retarded didn’t mean stupid. when you’re verifying this in your dictionary, check out the word ignorant.

By: Yugoslavian Cavemench

Yugoslavian Cavemench — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:27:55 +0000

What me need pinch 2 zume for?

By: G

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:24:45 +0000

@gray could not fine “xScope” on the Canadan Google Markit. (using search word “xScope”)

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:20:47 +0000

I’m sure the issue is around Apple’s US only patent of multitouch. Google is waiting to see if Apple goes after other companies (e.g. Palm) and wins for using mutlitouch in the US. Now Google can’t say “hey we aren’t using it because Apple has a patent” because that would be acknowledging the patent. Instead they just go with the “Chewbacca Defense” (as John pointed out)

By: swazedahustla

swazedahustla — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:06:36 +0000

For me the biggest reason I love multitough on my hero, is simply because I do alot of typing (email and text) and it would be hell trying to type so much and waiting for the phone to register each touch individually. Multitough allows you to type sooooooo much faster simply because it registers multiple touches on the keyboard. Its a difference from typing 3 words and having to wait for the screen to catch up, as opposed to typing those words fast and the screen is right there with you.

By: swazedahustla

swazedahustla — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:03:47 +0000

I wish some people would learn multitouch is MORE THAN JUST PINCH TO ZOOM!!! Geeeez like the article says, it has to do with performance of the keyboard, maps and other things. Just cause you install dolphin browser does not mean you all of a sudden have multitouch. It just means your browser uses pinch to zoom. Thats just one small factor in multitouch. READ!!! Its fundamental.

By: Jon Mayer

Jon Mayer — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:40:30 +0000

It’s not about whether pinch to zoom is better, it’s about the phone having multi-touch capability and not giving it to the users in the release. The keyboard would benefit greatly from multi-touch, this isn’t just about gestures. Even though, IMO, gestures are more natural and give the user more control. This is a conspiracy because no one can explain why it is in Europe and not in the US. If they just came out and said, we are in agreements that restrict us from adding in multi-touch, at least that’s an answer. But to say they don’t like it, and therefor it’s not in the stock American phones – just pathetic.

By: Woodstock

Woodstock — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:06:49 +0000

@Richard

No, you are not the only one. I have used the G1, Cliq, and now the Nexus One, and I do not find myself wanting pinch-to-zoom; the +/- buttons work just fine.

I really do not “get” the freak-out over multi-touch.

–woodstock

By: Sherry Campbell

Sherry Campbell — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:12:26 +0000

I installed Dolphin browser, with its own pinch and zoom, and find it superior to iphone’s pinch and zoom. Why? Because it automatically adjusts to the screen’s size. You make the text bigger – it shows less text but ALL the text within the range of the screen is shown. It is a fabulous app and I doubt Google could improve on it if they come up with their own.