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by woadwarrior01 21 days ago
> Apple ripped of the phone that won the iF Design Award in 2006, the LG Prada.

Nice, albeit implausible story. Apple had been working on multi touch screens for a long time before that. They applied for a patent on it from 2004[1]. And TBF, neither Apple nor LG invented capacitive touch screens. Multiple discovery is a thing.

[1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7663607B2/en