Thread: Future of Internet Tablets
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2008-11-03 , 15:03
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Originally Posted by eiffel View Post
Here's a YouTube concept video showing how copy/paste could be done on the iPhone using multi-touch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nchuidJ_CYw
I'd need a (much?) bigger loupe, but it could work that way. Nice concept video. I don't think it's very intuitive (maybe somebody comes up with better gestures to initiate/end the selection), but it might even work better than what we do today with the stylus:
The stylus "leaves selection mode" whenever you accidentally lift it - which sometimes happens with langer selections. If you force selection mode as in this concept video, you needn't hold down all the way.

Originally Posted by eiffel View Post
And here's how it worked on the Apple Newton, 15 years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sue2BR1AHUE
OK, 15 years can help improving the situation