The iPhone Multi Touch Revolutionary

The iPhone such a revolutionary product has a lot to do with how you interact with it. Kinetic scrolling may be something you find on every Smartphone today, but if you try to remember how you had to handle tiny scroll bars with a Stylus before the iPhone existed, you'd remember why it became such a hit.

This is what I'd call a Natural User Interface, where you interact with Software as naturally as you'd interact with something that really exists. Software is nothing more than an executed idea. It's not really something tangible unless you make it become tangible with the way you interact with it. And yeah, I do feel it's fair we thank Apple for raising the bar in how we handle all Smartphones these days.  Source

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Multi Touch Gestures on YouTube

Multi Touch Gestures On Youtube iOS 4.3 beta has now released multi-touch gestures on the iPhone, though, I still feel things are not right. These new gestures require four fingers for all the multi-touch commands to work. I don't know about you, but I have bigger than the average hands. Swiping four of my fingers on a 3.5 inch screen will most likely not always work, and will also look kind of stupid to others if you ask me. It was actually until now that it makes sense to me why these features were never implemented in the past. The natural way to interact with a phone is with one hand. You rarely use your other hand, and if the UI requires the use of both hands, then they don't understand user behavior. What's interesting though, is how much less work is required to go around the UI with gestures.

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