Pinch-to-Zoom and other gestures demonstrated to Apple by Adam Bogue in 2003

If you remember the early Android days, the web browser and other apps didn't use the very intuitive “pinch-to-zoom” gesture that was popularized by the iPhone. This is the type of gestures that could be seen in movies like Minority Report (2002) and there are more examples of prior art. One of the reason often mentioned for the lack of Pinch and Zoom on early Android handsets was that Apple owned the patent on it, or at least that Apple used its legal muscles to discourage folks from using it. Later, the problem was solved, although it wasn't clear why.
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