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The iPhone screen, with its crisp, bright, 160 pixels per inch, touch-sensitive display, is truly a thing of beauty and a masterpiece of engineering. The iPhone’s multitouch screen is one of the key factors in iPhone’s tremendous usability. Because the screen can detect multiple touches at the same time and track them independently, applications are able to detect a wide range of gestures, giving the user power that goes beyond the interface.
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© 2009 Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche
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(2009). Taps, Touches, and Gestures. In: Beginning iPhone Development. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1627-8_13
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