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big_toast • today at 3:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I always wondered how much of apple’s touch input/GestureRecognizer and related ideas came out of this acquisition. CoreAnimation and input have kept me on iOS. I hope the computer history museum can get an oral history from the people who worked on these one day.


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codeulike • today at 3:26 PM

It seems Apple's multitouch was absolutely based on the work of Fingerworks. E.g see this write up

https://arturojmoreno.medium.com/fingerworks-changing-the-wo...

I posted this OP because it's interesting to see how middling the reviews were. But combine it with a touchscreen and ...