[From Hans] Thanks again to Hans who sent this interesting news snippet through to PA towers this morning - Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in Android, and Google complied. "One of the bigger complaints about T-Mobile’s G1, the first phone based on Google’s Android platform, is that its touch screen doesn’t use multi-touch, the technology which allows for a screen to accept multiple points of contact as simultaneous input. Now we may know why.
Apple, which of course makes the signature multi-touch mobile device, the iPhone, apparently asked Google not to implement it, and Google agreed, an Android team member tells us.
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