One of the most interesting aspects of the electronics industry is how different companies interact with each other. For example, the interactions between Apple and Microsoft over Multitouch technology have been extremely interesting and drawn millions of words of commentary from all around the globe. After Apple’s decisive trouncing of Microsoft in the first round of the Multitouch battle, Microsoft went away to lick its wounds for awhile, coming back eventually with the Windows 7 Multitouch introduction. While Windows 7 appears so far that it might be able to pick up some of the massive amounts of slack created by Windows Vista, Microsoft seems to find themselves in competition with another company now. This time, that company is Dell. Dell has tablet PCs in their
Multitouch is undoubtedly a technology that took the computer and technology industries by storm when it was first introduced in the Microsoft Surface Computer and later put into the Apple iPhone, a product that could be sold to massive markets at affordable rates. Lately however, there has been question as to whether the Multitouch technology that everyone seems to be touting is actually the technology of the future. Consider exhibit A, an interesting little device known as the Samsung Instinct. This is a cell phone attached to Sprint plans and it is also a phone that has little to do with Multitouch. It does have a touch screen interface however, since you can touch buttons and make things happen. It has no Multitouch however, since