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Yeah, whatever. Find me one person that doesn't want a super high resolution digital tablet.

This stuff was Science-Fiction just 5 years ago. If Apple didn't bring it to use we'd be using desktop GUI computers forever.

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It would have come sooner or later, it's not because Apple was the first to do it that nobody was thinking about doing such kind of interfaces before. You should know by the history of patents that similar ideas are always flowing around in different places - We would NOT have been using desktop GUIs forever on portable devices.

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