[Retric]

Public companies are not a closed loop. The iPhone pushed cellphone UI rather far compared what academics did over the last 20 years.

[Nullabillity]

On the other hand, it also meant that we're still stuck with capacitive touch screens.

[nulltype]

If you think that's bad you should have seen the resistive ones.

[Nullabillity]

I'd take the resistive screen of my old N900 over my current N4's capacitive any day.

[robotresearcher]

Which were invented by government and university labs.