Who wants multi-touch? I think I just might.

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Thanks for playing!: Neither require 2 hands, just a thumb and forefinger.

And while you are using your thumb and forefinger, the iPhone floats in mid air? No, you have to hold it with one hand and zoom with the other... hence you need 2 hands. Contrast that with double tap for zoom which can be done one handed. Even better is the HTC Touch Diamond's solution which has a scroll wheel that gives you the best of all worlds: intuitive, granular, and can be done one handed.

You have very intuitive, granular control of zooming on the iPhone.

It isn't intuitive but regardless, the end results aren't even any good. Why? Because the main place where this is used is in Safari which doesn't even re-render the page for the zoom level you've just chosen. Again, contrast that to Opera on the HTC Touch Diamond which re-renders the content to fill the screen width and you have iPhone users who either can't read the screen if they don't zoom in enough (and the horrible resolution of the iPhone doesn't help) or frantically swipe back and forth when they zoom in too much because now the content is wider than the screen. I have to admit I get a kick out of watching iPhone users attempt to read the stuff they are browsing.

The two finger scroll gesture allows you to scroll without moving your whole hand, which is much more efficient and user-friendly.

Wow, I must have some pretty special hands then because I can scroll with the trackpad without expending massive amounts of energy to move my hand! Maybe I'm just more fit than you are? Or maybe you are lying?

Additionally, none of the touchpad space is wasted with a stupid, unnecessary dedicated "scroll pad".

See my answer to msalzberg. None of the trackpad is "wasted". Would you consider 90% of the new MacBook's buttonless trackpad "wasted" because it is used as a button? No, of course not. The space isn't dedicated for scrolling. Read my reply to msalzberg for a quick lesson on what you are pretending to know something about.

Already, there are a slew of games and apps that are using multi-touch in interesting ways.

Cool! Name them. I'm willing to have my mind changed but you'll have to do better than: Trust me, it's cool even though I can't give you any examples.; Posted by: NonZealot Posted on: 11/06/08 (Edited: 11/06/2008 @ 04:40) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use