Comments on: Cupertino, My Lovely: Apple forced Google to give up on multi-touch

By: yahel

yahel — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:54:38 +0000

Hi,

Multitouch is actually usable in Android SDK :

http://www.alicesbiscuit.com/android-sdk-multitouch-workaround.html

This is hacky, but it works.

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By: J Shamsul Bahri

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:40:56 +0000

Was reading this on Google Reader,.. and right at the bottom of the post there is an add for Google Chrome. :)

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By: Jocca

Jocca — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:03:41 +0000

Let me get this clear.
Google owns Android, but not the patents on multi-touch.
Google is free to distribute Android as it sees fit. Google is not free to distribute multi-touch patents because Apple owns them.
Google, therefore will not bundle multi-touch patents with Android.
Playing nice is NOT what I will call Google’s action. Prudent business practice is a more accurate way of describing Google’s policy.