There are many nice things about the Mac. Some of them are definitely the envy of PC. Sometimes the PC cannot resist the temptation to copy. But you know what? Sometimes the copy is so duh. Here’s something I just came across: Multi-Touch gestures for the PC. Yes, Multi-Touch is now no longer exclusive to the MacBooks and iPhones.
Seen from Gizmodo, a Japanese company has a new product called SmartTrack Neo, which is an external USB trackpad that supports gesture movements to control a PC. The graphics depict features such as scrolling (already commonly available on PC anyway), rotating, zooming, and previous/next navigational controls.
Cool. Except that the external trackpad itself is not cool. It is really clunky.
Microsoft Surface has multitouch capabilities before Apple has it. Apple is hardly the pioneer here (neither is Microsoft in my opinion). I don’t view Microsoft as a device maker but they did have investments in other companies that deal with multitouch. Apple bought Fingerworks to do this. Microsoft updates their operating system to support multitouch.
Not quite… Microsoft Surface (from what I am reading from Wikipedia) became available in April 2008, although it was first announced in May 2007. The iPhone, on the other hand, was announced in January 2007 and became available end June 2008. That makes Apple earlier than Microsoft. But okay, the iPhone is not a Mac.