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Apple is personally responsible, they bought out the company that created the original (or at least first commercially succesful one) http://www.fingerworks.com/ST_product.html

You can pick them up on ebay but they're now quite old and extremely expensive.

Well, it's even worse than that.

Many modern touchpads support multitouch in hardware but it's disabled in drivers [1].

I believe it has something to do with Apple sitting on multitouch patents. Even Android phones were supposed not to have multitouch because of Apple.

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[1] For example Synaptics ones in Thinkpads. You can get multitouch using modded drivers.

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