This is how Steve Jobs was convinced to implement a multitouch screen in the iPhone

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  Steve Jobs he wanted to reinvent smartphones, but the implementation of a multitouch screen in the iPhone did not seem like a logical idea from the very beginning for the former CEO of the American company, he needed a little convincing to see how important everything is. In 2004 Bas Ording, a former Apple employee, created for Steve Jobs a multitouch table that offered a rudimentary functionality, which nevertheless demonstrates how important is the possibility of controlling multiple elements on the screen simultaneously.

  The project was presented to Jobs and other Apple managers, the CEO being interested in creating a tablet, but implementing a multitouch screen in such a product still didn't seem like such a great idea for those from Cupertino. In this idea, Steve Jobs he wanted to close the project initiated by his employee and if he had rushed to make a decision about it, then he probably would have done it, and the iPhone terminal and iPad tablets would never have been launched on the market.

  However, Steve Jobs waited a few days and thought about the project, then he talked to some people from Apple whose opinion he trusted, so he then decided that a multitouch screen would be perfect for a very small and very thin phone, but not for a tablet. Tony Fadell, the "father" of the iPod, received the task of creating this phone, and in 2007 Apple presented the iPhone to the whole world, the smartphone going to revolutionize the entire industry of this type of mobile terminals.