Why Did Apple Just Now Turn Off the Lights at Fingerworks.com? [Apple]

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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2010/01/fiiingerwooorks.jpgApple bought Fingerworks—a company that developed a bunch of multitouch accessories, interfaces and gestures (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/24/technology/no-press-no-stress-when-fingers-fly.html)—years ago, but left the site online until this week, even as founder Wayne Westerman (http://gizmodo.com/tag/waynewesterman/) popped up in Apple patents. It's gone now (http://web.archive.org/web/20080725222150/http://www.fingerworks.com/). Hmmm. [MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/11/fingerworks-com-content-pulled-ahead-of-apple-tablet-announcement/)]


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