Anyway, on topic, as graffiti users know, a gesture based interface can be very rich without needing multi-touch.

Surur

HTC have obviously done a lot more than make just the photos app finger friendly, but I agree that:

Another very bad aspect of this is that HTC's modifications will probably turn out to be either incompatible with what Microsoft does down the line or rendered redundant by Microsoft's UI developments. Compare for instance the TouchFLO app launcher with the rumoured new WM 6.1 launcher (based on Windows Media Centre) Surur alerted us to:

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=154550

It would be nice wouldn't it if the guys that do the OS and the guys do the hardware could actually pull in the same direction?

a) You need multi-touch to remove the selection step before an action is invalidated by HTC's gesture-based interface and

b) Multi-Touch means you wont have to select things before the action, as its only useful if you only want to do one action (zooming in the main it seems). It doesn't really help for cut, copy and paste, does it?

I'm still waiting for the west coast to go down due to all those hacked iPhones...

The phrase "good artists borrow, great artists steal" certainly applies here. I'm glad to see HTC making Windows Mobile more usable; I wish Microsoft would apply similar focus.