iPhone Touch Screen is Showing the Way

Touch screens have been on the market for YEARS... the iPhone MultiTouch screen may appear to be the same on the surface but it's radically different technology. (Speaking of surface, Microsoft's Surface uses yet another type of technology.)

The other handset makers are banking on this confusion as they scramble in the labs to make a multi-touch screen that works as well as Apple's that can control a UI that's as smooth and simple to use as Apple's... and do it faster than Apple did... without stepping on Apple patents filed four years ago when the iPhone was just a rumor.

Steve Jobs wasn't shooting for the stars when he said 10 million units, and he wasn't exaggerating to say that Apple was 5 years ahead in technology.

Some may narrow the gap, but 15 months into the race it doesn't look good for the competition as poll after poll puts iPhone as the lust-object of the vast majority of the people actually spending money and not just blowing smoke on a blog.

I say iPhone's first REAL competition is still a year away, perhaps even 18 months.

Tedious of WA 4:12PM November 07, 2008