This patent covers all the actions related to this technology such as enlarging of the images with two fingers, rotations… and more generally all actions than one can make on a screen of the iPhone. Henceforth, all those wanting to use this technology will have to pass the hurdle of Apple authorization which will certainly enrage more than one, especially as Apple is certainly not ready to let its competitors make something that looks like its telephone.
We have never appreciated the principle of software patent, and we do not this time even though Apple is the winner. This patent is likely to slow down considerably all the remainder of the electronics industry concerning this technology. Thus, new mobiles coupled to touch screen computers or the concept Surfaces of Microsoft will suffer.
If you have the desire to explore these pages of sketches and text:
http://patft.uspto.gov
