Very nice done; and Apple should pay them money and make some stuff part of official API.
Quite creative
Quite creative
Agreed.
A bit too much
This will never take up, Apple likes simplicity. The experience they provide has to be for 8 Year olds as well as 80 year olds.
Sorry, nice video though.
I wonder. Might not be the case.
These gestures I think can pretty much co-exist with the simple ones implemented so far. From what I can tell they do not re-define them. If you don't tell people about these extra gestures they would probably not realize they're there.
And if they accidentally discover some, they might be intuitive enough for them to figure out how they work.
Hope Apple licenses these patents.
[Though they are notoriously bad at accepting Things Not Invented Here...]
When the first cars were made people wanted running boards on the sides ... why because horse drawn carriages had them.
This is has clearly been made with the sole intention of Apple buying up the patent. The fact it uses Apple private Api means it should be cheaper for them to acquire but still produce a tidy profit or income for the makers. Very nice touch, but I am not sure if it will ever become more than a gimmick.
Not a single flaw in any of their implementations.
I work for an Apple Premium Reseller and I know that a lot of people have to get used to multi-touch. For the trackpads but also on the iPad. Mostly elderly people have difficulty even tapping an icon. They hold it for too long and makes the icons wobble (so you can re-order them).
The two, three or four finger page flip seems logical, but sliding the thumb from the bezel to the middle and then back, that's going to confuse a lot of people. Same goes for how long you keep your finger on screen before you swipe.
I can't agree more with you. People have to stop trying to make a touch interface resemble a paper book. Look at iBooks 2, it's no longer static, it's interactive. That's something that pushes the human race forward in stead of clamping to something that looks familiar.
Yes, Multi-touch page flipping is gimmicky and nicely thought of, but that's all it should stay.
EDIT: Wow... 'human race' is a bit overdone... Let's just say it pushes technology forward.
Just one: it's unnecessary. It makes for nice eye candy, but that's about it. Why should I struggle with flipping virtual pages when, by tapping, I can get an entire visual index at the bottom of the page? I agree with others: e-books aren't paper books. It's not about re-creating the mannerisms of a real book; it's about finding new ways to interact that are more efficient than a real book.
I think that it's a nice demonstration of what can be done but I do question the "real world" usability. Nothing really stood out during the video as; I've gotta have this! In fact, a lot of the features looked as if they could be pretty annoying during day to day use.