| The idea that the palm was a touch based UI is simply false. You needed a stylus and the UI was designed for a stylus. You could do some things with fingers and some apps were designed for finger use, where it was appropriate. The reason you needed a stylus is because the technology was not advanced enough to detect finger touches with the accuracy that the iPhone does. Even if Palm had all of the algorithms that apple developed for iOS, the ARM processors in those palms was not fast enough. To claim that Apple invented nothing new because you could get a Palm to react to your finger is frankly a lie. It is a shameful lie, because when you let your ideology drive you to dishonesty, you've lost all integrity. I have given the specifics of how and why my claims are true, but you ignore them, and you post dishonest stuff like this. I genuinely don't know if you are simply ignorant and repeating what you've heard from others how are lying, or you're lying yourself, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter. For the record, I have owned Palms and Newtons and Compaq's stylus driven device (iPaq I think it was) etc. None of them could be used completely by fingers and all of them were designed to be used reliably by styluses. I never said they would not react to finger presses at all, and I never said they couldn't be used in a limited fasion with finger presses.... so pretending that I did is yet another dishonesty. |