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Originally Posted by .wo
you're right, placing a virtual keyboard on a touch-screen display is not new ...
What I meant was that I myself was doing this 20 years ago. I personally have prior art on tons of touchscreen graphic and input effects. It's impossible not to see derivative effects of my work on today's touchscreen GUI's. Buttons that reverse, buttons that light up, X/OR color changes and scores more - it's all OLD, OLD, OLD. It seems that everybody except Apple and the odd patent lawyer here and there understands that there's nothing really new in today's touchscreen GUI's and there's nothing 'not obvious' that they've included in their application in the way that touchscreen GUI's are being used by millions of people today. I don't mean to bore anybody but it just irritates the hell out of me when some big company, or some lawyer, tries to gain ownership of how, for decades, we have literally been interacting with toushcreens. Apple deserves all the scorn and resistance that we can muster.