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		EastSmith on Oct 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone Wasn't Apple the reason Android spent it's early days without multitouch? Imagine modern touch mobile without multitouch?

andreyf on Oct 23, 2009 [–]

Isn't the reason Apple spent the amount of money they did developing multitouch because they knew they could patent it? If there were no patent protections in place, it would have been very financially foolish to spend most of the R&D money Apple spends.

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