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		pyre on Feb 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the ... `> If there was no innovation in bringing multi-touch to > smart phones, why wasn't everyone doing it in 2007 when > the iPhone was first released?` For starters, because Apple bought the company that invented multi-touch, therefore controlled the rights to the technology.

pyre on Feb 24, 2012 [–]

Further, Apple purchased them in April 2005, a little less than two years before they announced the iPhone (Jan 2007).

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