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Apple Stopped Multitouch on Android, Alleged Google Source Says [Apple Vs Google]
Gizmodo —
... Completely drunk sources also claim that Google's CEO Eric Schmidt likes Steve's tempura tofu too much to risk his gourmet pleasure over a stupid phone. And when I say "his gourmet pleasure," I really mean "his gonads." [Ventura Beat] ...
Apple solicitou ao Google que não utilizasse multi-touch no Android
MacMagazine —
... A Apple pode ter pedido especificamente ao Google para não usar a tecnologia multi-touch em sua plataforma Android — solicitação esta acatada pela firma de Mountain View, segundo uma fonte segura (possivelmente um (ex-?)membro do próprio time de desenvolvimento do Android) do VentureBeat. ...
Multi-touch omitted from Android at Apple's request - report
AppleInsider —
... Published: 10:00 AM EST The absence of multi-touch functionality on T-Mobile's Android-powered G1 smartphone may have been a casualty of Google's cordial relationship with Apple -- one that the search giant would rather not disrupt. An unnamed source inside the Android team told VentureBeat that Apple requested multi-touch be left out of the device, and Mountain View, Calif.-based Google was happy to comply. The G1 has been criticized in several reviews for its touch user interface, which is "inferior to the iPhone's," as Walt Mossberg ...
Can’t Touch This: Apple and Google Canoodled
GEARFUSE —
... of multi-touch capability. As it turns out, Apple actually asked Google not to use multi-touch on the G1. Apple owns a lot of patents related to the multi-touch, so it’s a move that at least makes sense. The question is, should Google have caved in to Apple’s demands? Considering the patents at stake, the nature of the two companies and the scope of each legal department, I think it was a smart move. If you really need multi-touch on your G1, there are ways to get it working . Link
Apple requested Android multitouch support be cut?
SlashGear —
... According to an unnamed Android team member, Google actively pulled multitouch support from the Android platform after Apple requested its removal. The decision, which the source claims was done to avoid souring Google’s ongoing relationship with Apple, left the T-Mobile G1 with hardware that would support multitouch but a platform that restricts input to just a single finger. ...
Cupertino, My Lovely: Apple forced Google to give up on multi-touch
CrunchGear —
... G: Two…
A: Two kids, twenty fingers. This could get ugly real fast.
G: You animal.
A: It’s business. But we can make it pleasure. After all, we could just take Google Maps off of the iPhone deck.
G: No, no. Don’t go crazy. Don’t go crazy. You can have the girl.
A: You gonna keep playing ball?
G mumbles
A: Say it. Louder.
G: I’m gonna keep playing ball.
A: See you around, kid.
via VentureBeat
Apple commanded, Google obeyed
Tech Ticker —
... multi-touch gestures at ease. However, according to a member from the Android team, it was a conscious decision by Google. He says that Apple asked (ordered?!) Google not to implement multi-touch and Google happily obliged them.
Well, this is not as straight as it seems because there seems to be a lot of hidden motives. Both the companies benefit from each other and adding the most craved feature could easily spoil their relationship as well as decrease revenues.
[Via Venturbeat]
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Apple le habría prohibido a Google usar el multitouch en Android, y Google aceptó
Celularis —
... haber incumplido las reglas de Apple y utilizó el refrán que dice que “es más fácil pedir perdón que pedir permiso”, pero Apple no le hizo juicio ni lo amenazó, como si hizo con Palm luego del anuncio de la Palm Pre, ésta vez Google pidió permiso o Apple le avisó con tiempo.
¿Que hará Apple con Microsoft, que promete incluir este feature mutitouch en Windows Mobile 7.0 en el 2010?
Vía VentureBeat ...
Did Google omit multi-touch for Android OS on Apple’s request?
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... hope yet. It’s too easy to see Google developing the Android OS with full muti-touch support in a private development branch, waiting for the day when Apple licenses mulit-touch (or at least stops trying to protect the technology through dubious patents). The Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre is already being prepared to showdown with Apple over multi-touch technologies on smartphones, so it may just be a matter of time before we see Android rocking multi-touch!
[Via: VentureBeat]
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FUD alert: Apple allegedly scared Google out of using multitouch, 3.5mm jacks, batteries, displays, love
Engadget —
... So we've been watching this sketchily-sourced piece from VentureBeat's MG Sigler that claims Google was specifically asked to avoid implementing multitouch by Apple over patent concerns bounce its way around the web today, and while we didn't want to ...
Google May Have Crippled Android Because Apple Asked
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... after all, have a pretty strong comradery that Google wouldn't wish to disturb. And it might have been wise for Google to comply, since tensions seem to be rising between Apple and Palm, whose new Palm Pre handset appears to mimic the iPhone's multi-touch screen.
Still, if the story about Google is true, it's a bit disturbing to believe Apple is powerful enough to cripple (i.e., limit the capabilities of) someone else's hardware and software in addition to its own. Source: Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in Android, and Google complied ...
