Thread: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
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dafrabbit is offline dafrabbit
2008-09-22 , 19:34
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
BTW: whats the big deal with multi-touch? I have never seen one single use case for it (no, zooming images doesn't count, that's sooo 2007). Except for being cool, what could be done with a multitouch interface that I can't do now? (Given also that I use one hand to hold the device...)
I am inclined to agree with you - on such small devices as the ITs, I can't think of when multi-touch would be absolutely necessary. On the other hand, it would be nice to have the ability to do this. One argument for multi-touch would be that the majority of the best multi-touch applications have yet to be written and are simply waiting for hardware!

I think however, that multi-touch can become a very useful input method on larger devices (e.g. desktop size or larger).