Source: 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." Read more @ VentureBeat .

Labels: android, apple, g1, google, iphone, iphone os

  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/10/2009 07:37:00 PM