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Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's
itwbennett writes "Hoping to avoid a sales ban in the Netherlands, Samsung has said that Android's multitouch software doesn't work as well as Apple's. Samsung lawyer Bas Berghuis van Woortman said that while Apple's technology is a 'very nice invention,' the Android system is harder for developers to use. Arguing the bizarre counterpoint, Apple's lawyer Theo Blomme told judge Peter Blok, that the Android multitouch isn't inferior and does so infringe on Apple's patent: 'They suggest that they have a lesser solution, but that is simply not true,' said Blomme."
Yeah, but those are *square* icons, you see.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
No, I swear to God, our multitouch sucks, its nowhere as good as Apple's. He's lying your honor, their Samsung multitouch is almost as good as Apple's
I had thought that my problems with multitouch (on my Android phone, where I avoid it as much as possible; on my laptop touchpad, where I've disabled it) had to do with my own poor physical coordination. But now it turns out that Apple is the only company that knows how to do multitouch right.
So maybe I should become an Apple person. Naw, the patriarchial user echosystems around OS X and iOS still suck too much. And I still don't understand how any sane person can live with iTunes!
Samsung: Our phones are WAAAAY crappier than Apple's!
Apple: No they're not, they're just as good!
Bizarro world.
We have gotten to the point where Samsung is insisting Android is crap while Apple is insisting it is every bit as good as their technology. Could an actual flying pig be more than a week away?
I feel like I've fallen into a Monty Python skit.
Vendor A: "I assure you our product inferior to the competition's!"
Vendor B: "Don't believe his lies! His product is every bit as good as ours!"
Something is seriously wrong in the market if we're getting arguments like this.
Yeah but see...
<idiotJuror>Those icons won't compile and run on an iPhone so it isn't prior art at all. As a matter of fact "prior art" as a concept is just too much of a burden to even think about and, wouldn't you look at the clock, it's lunchtime!</idiotJuror>
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
Apple's touch is currently better. I find Android systems (including mine) as having much more trouble figuring out what my touches are supposed to do
That's strange since in my situation I've found it to be precisely opposite. When I'm using my iPad it's mostly for surfing the internet and I almost always have to tap twice on the urlbar before I hit the right spot for it to register. Dead on isn't it for some reason. Other parts of the OS have the same issue but maybe not as bad. Contrast that with my Xoom running Jellybean and the Xoom touches are always just right. My finger touches an element straight on and it hits it. Same with my Galaxy Nexus. Maybe my iPad's defective but it's always been that way since I bought it.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
Just download via torrent, then send a check directly to the artist ;)
I can't call that English