Comments on: Patent Watch: More Multi-Touch Gestures for the iPhone

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:22:36 +0000

Anybody here use the MobileTerminal application available on hacked iphones? It has gestures exactly like what this patent is claiming. Swipe down to return, swipe left to backspace, etc. It even distinguishes between long and a short swipes, as well as making use of diagonal swipes.

By: Daje

Daje — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:46:27 +0000

What we really need is mms cut and paste and video recording forwarding messages I hope the next iPhone includes all this

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:58:13 +0000

Google "Fitaly" for Palm, Windows Mobile, Tablet, etc. It's only been around for 10 years or so.

"Most of the time we tap on keys of a keyboard. In addition, version 2.0 of the Fitaly keyboard has introduced the notion of sliding, that is, the act of moving the pen to another key after the initial tap."

and

"Our experience with Fitaly 2.0 has shown the value of sliding to quickly enter capitals and digits. Most users have found it to be very natural and fast: it is much faster to slide a key than to tap a shift key and a given letter."

Does no one even make an attempt to find prior art anymore???

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:20:34 +0000

Really, a copy/ paste bitch?

iPhone Blog Post = Copy Another Blog's Article + Complain About Copy/ Paste

By: ANA

ANA — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:39:48 +0000

Sounds cool to me.

By: iBamse

iBamse — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:16:59 +0000

Did they ever even try a Windows Mobile device? And did they ever hear about the expression 'prior art'?

By: Chris Vitek

Chris Vitek — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:52:51 +0000

Sounds like grafiti to me.

By: frog

frog — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:52:26 +0000

Sounds interesting. Don't know if they should go removing the spacebar though!

By: M. Elwan

M. Elwan — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:33:55 +0000

I think Apple is introducing this patent (and few others as well) to change few things around in terms of functionality in order for them to implement features like cut & paste.

By: Mike M

Mike M — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:16:42 +0000

How hard is it to hit the spacebar? The keyboard's already there. Some things just don't need to be improved. Work on the things we're missng please.

By: KM

KM — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:41:02 +0000

I agree with the cut and paste thing, having patents to help people make peorids and apostrophès is, in my opinion, less important than developing cut & paste. Though these are inovative gestures, it should be all the more easier to create cut & paste gestures which, again in opinion, more important than symbol gestures.

But what do I know. -KM.

By: xf

xf — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:25:05 +0000

I wish somebody would cite Graffiti as prior art for this nonsense.

And then make Apple open the platform up to PDA emulators.