Pinch and Spread: The Battle Over Multitouch Tech Is On
The Pre, Palm’s new mobile phone, stole the show at CES this year. Looks helped, but mainly it was the Pre’s iPhone-like touchscreen tech that wowed the industry crowd. Two weeks later, Apple COO Tim Cook expressed his irritation (without directly naming Palm) to analysts on a conference call: “We will not stand for having our IP ripped off”
