Discussion: Palm's WebOS and the Swipe-Up Gesture: A Head Start on Apple
The cited sources give this account: In 2009, Palm introduced WebOS with a swipe gesture for multitasking, a feature not adopted by Apple until 2017. Tim Cook threatened a patent fight with Palm, showing Apple's rattled response to the innovation, despite taking years to integrate the swipe-up for .
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