Accessing raw touch data from iPhone screen

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Published on 2010-05-15T02:43:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 2:54 UTC
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I know Apple went to a lot of trouble to convert a big blob of touch data to a nice single point, and I appreciate it, but does anyone know how to access the raw data before it's processed? Official or unofficial method, it doesn't matter.

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