In 2007, Apple launched the first iPhone model with a capacitive touchscreen that amazed the world. Back then, Apple's phone would be praised for its extremely well-made screen and for the way user interaction was recorded, and the company's competitors were rushing to produce screens using similar technologies. Although so many years have passed, Apple has finally received one invention patent for the multitouch technology used in all its iDevices, a patent that will prove useful in the near future when Apple will probably start asking for money from competitors that use this technology in their own terminals.
A computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display, comprises displaying a portion of page content, including a frame displaying a portion of frame content and also including other content of the page, on the touch screen display.
Samsung, HTC, Nokia, RIM and Motorola are among the giants that use multitouch technology in their own terminals and Apple will probably sue them to force them to license this technology. For Apple, this patent represents a weapon that it will definitely use, but the American courts will decide whether Apple uses it rightly or wrongly. Multitouch technology has revolutionized the way we use mobile phones and at the moment a smartphone without multitouch is unimaginable.
