Apple spent another day at the patent office staff , locking down this approximation : a Multi - Touch Gesture Dictionary that identifies all kinds of finger’s breadth play you’re able to do on upcoming multi - touch interface . It started out with just the expand and declaration motions on the iPhone , along with the power to swipe your finger’s breadth to get from one characterisation or computer graphic to the next . This postulate those few motion into the next property . Come on over to the next page , and see a big version of this multi - touch map , which wait as complicated as the West Coast Offense in the NFL .
As you may see above , control will be addressable by move finger’s breadth in various directions on the screen , combining the thumb and 2nd finger and dragging in sure directions , and then actually playing muitl - finger’s breadth chords on the multi - touch video display , similar to the elbow room you would on a piano .
Reminds me of a sax fingering chart . forte-piano players and fiend will have sex this , but we ’re wondering if John Q. Public will wish the idea of learn how to toy a melodic tool just to find a phone number . Crazier things have happen — for representative , one word : QWERTY . [ US Patent Office , viaPC Joint ]
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