Nicely done, Anderlan

actually when im trying to slide the screen and I accidently double tap its annoying, so removing that and using multi touch and pinching would eliminate that frustration making the phone more user friendly. just wanted to whine too :)

My G1 running CyanogenMod has pinch zoom and I rarely use it. Double/Triple tapping is way more useful and allows you to use the phone with one hand. I rarely hold the phone with one hand and type/pinch/swipe with the other. Seriously, get over it already.

Argh, my eyes! My brain! Why, why do I understand that WoW analogy? WHY did you USE a WoW analogy?

Ditto what Dg and Gottoon said.

Think of party combat in World of Warcraft. The players’ party is called Team Android. The tank (the Droid) pulls all the aggression of the foe(s) (aggro), so the rest of the team doesn’t get repeatedly bitten or clawed by the main adversary. Team Android doesn’t want to engage The Apple Patent Monster (APM), so Droid doesn’t use the techniques that would enrage him. However, at a farther range, with Droid between him and the APM, Eris feels secure doing things that might aggro the APM at closer range and without the high-level Droid in the way. Milestone is on a continent where APM gets a slight debuff.

I’m thinking that Verizon just wanted to make their no 2 Eris more appealing. I’ll bet P&Z is included in a future Droid upgrade.

Well, the answer is obvious:

They all (moto, google and verizon) are creating this confusion in an attempt to confuse apple lawyers, and causing them to ask the same question!

Well done, unfortunately a lot of users are beeing disapointed.

In the other hand, the haking is there, freedom is allowed for advanced users of Android, and all we know that we could change and modify the ROM of our devices.

Seriously, it’s starting to sound like everyone in here just wants an iPhone…it’s not *that* important.

well if you ask me it was google, motorola really only has authority over the hardware and verizon has absolutely zero reason to want it disabled (unless they’re planning on adding it for a monthly fee :P)

i think google built in multitouch support so the platform wouldn’t fall behind but just won’t go against apple’s wishes enough to add it to their own apps, sure they have good reason for wanting to stay on good terms with apple but with the palm pre, the zune hd, and even HTC android phones using pinch to zoom i think google is the last one apple will go after.

why they chose to add it in germany but not here is beyond me, maybe they aren’t afraid of apple enforcing its us patents overseas?