When the Andriod G1 came out many were dissapointed from the lack of multi-touch support. The iPhone remains the multi-touch king so to speak in the mobile phone business. Many have speculated over the reasoning behind Andriod's lack of multi-touch support while others have added it in themselves later. Finally a Venturebeat source on Google's Andriod team has come clean.
Google has not included multi-touch support in their Andriod platform because Apple asked them not to.
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