I remember experiencing some undesired "orientation locks" in Safari with Beta 1, as if the accelerometer looses responsiveness or something (especially after bringing up the keyboard). A minor issue. But didn't try Beta 2 or 3.
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Latest iPhone OS 4 Beta Gains Orientation Lock and iPod Controls in Multitasking Interface
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I remember experiencing some undesired "orientation locks" in Safari with Beta 1, as if the accelerometer looses responsiveness or something (especially after bringing up the keyboard). A minor issue. But didn't try Beta 2 or 3.
Since I only have an iPhone, folders is a big deal. Sure, everyone else and their sister has had that kind of stuff, but I've been using iPhones since they came out and it's nice to finally get to join the club.
And that's exactly what I wanted to say. Call it "AdHoc Landscape Lock (ALL™)" if you want
here's a youtube video of the ipod widget and rotation lock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijgjQW0jWo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijgjQW0jWo
No. I'd rather read them in portrait mode (with the phone in a landscape orientation, hence the portrait mode lock). That is obviously personal preference, but I believe most people prefer portrait mode in most situations.
Oh, the phone is OK. It didn't even begin to install the update, iTunes crashed as it was verifying the update.
Are you serious? Who wants to go through the pain of entering street fighter combo moves just to play music or go to the next track.
That's a fair point, and I think you're addressing the precise reason it's not there. Nonetheless, there's so much benefit in landscape lock that it would IMHO be far more than worth it for the apps that do support it.
What I'd really like to see:
Make Landscape Lock a mode that forces landscape whenever it's supported and ignore it when not supported. (Simple to do. The OS just always returns status of landscape orientation whenever queried). This would force us to hold it in portrait for apps (or app modes) that don't support landscape, and would give us exactly what we want when it is supported. What more could we want. We'd have a perfect solution for using apps like safari, when lying in bed.
When you think about it, that behavior is quite similar to what we have right now with no lock mode. When you turn the iphone horizontal today, some apps (even apple apps) continue to display in portrait. That's a disappointing surprise just like the surprise you'd get when turning on landscape lock and using an app that doesn't support landscape. Seems to me that it's just barely more awkward than what we now (in one way) have but DOES totally satisfy the need where applicable. (And we'd eliminate the crazy flipping in those situations where you need landscape, which is MUCH, MUCH more awkward IMHO)
I do agree though that there's enough quirkiness that apple is likely to refuse to do it, given their philosophy of "Do it right or not at all"
Pete
If you are un-geek, please beware that there is no official way to restore your iPhone from a beta (Last time I checked dev forums). If the beta happens to expire before the new one comes out, your iPhone gets essentially *bricked*... you can hack your way back but it's a bit tricky and involves downloading dubious scripts and using the command line... but it's possible
i was the original poster. i never said anything about long tap combinations, you do know how many permutations are possible with just three taps? and without having to resort to your silly & "facetious" example?
i never used the word "easier", that word makes no sense in this context.
i said "preferable"
thanks to the posts above which explain that iphone turned upside-down actually locks the display into landscape mode,
i personally like to read with the screen as wide as possible, thus when lying in my side i wish to read in landscape mode. not sure which "natural way" you are referring to... and not sure why you prefer reading in portrait mode. but each to hie own. have a nice evening
-B-
The key here is that one button takes you to home. The other functions of the home button are there for power users. But you have absolutely no reason to actually use those functions.
Want the iPod controls? Home Button->iPod App
Want to goto another app? Home Button->Other app
Want your iPod controls faster? Home Button (twice)->Swipe->buttons available
Want to switch to the previous app? Home Button (twice)->Tap the app
There's no reason you NEED to use the multi-tasking interface at all. You can accomplish the same thing by only tapping once and clicking the application. The new interface is there for power users who really know what they're doing. Most users simply don't. So it's somewhat hidden.
The problem you're missing is a combination of two factors
1) Safari is currently designed to show much larger fonts in landscape mode. When you change orientation and zoom into a column of text, Safari NEVER recalculates word wrap. The same number of characters is displayed in a much wider column (when in landscape), thus providing those much larger fonts.
2)Many folks like myself need those larger fonts to be able to read a large portion of web content. I know from my conversations that there are an AWFUL lot of people in my boat.
Android, btw, allows many font zoom levels but CHANGES WORD WRAP to keep your text within the visible margins. (Thus avoiding the need for the horizontal scrolling introduced on an iphone when you pinch to zoom in) If apple did this, landscape lock would be less important.
Pete
It's just you. The 1500 new APIs are slowly being explored and Macrumors chooses to report, by NDA breakers, certain Apple changes that are immediate.
you find it really painful to "click twice -> next track" or "click thrice -> go to start of present track"???
this is too complicated for you?
so you also do not use the controls on your earbuds?
no problem, each to his own
you find it really painful to "click twice -> next track" or "click thrice -> go to start of present track"???
this is too complicated for you?
so you also do not use the controls on your earbuds?
no problem, each to his own
The problem is that "click twice" and "click thrice" are already in use by the OS... So you'd have to use different commands.
"click quadrice" just isn't working for me.
I see all these people griping and moaning about the lack of landscape locking, but I can't think of a single occasion in which I've wanted landscape mode locked, while laying on my side. Usually, I'm reading something in portrait mode and I scroll vertically, using my thumb. Personally, I wouldn't miss that option one bit.
That's of course a fair point, too. But I would argue that it's more than "just barely more awkward" in a user interface sense. Explicitly alerting the user that "landscape orientation is locked" and then having the device potentially immediately (or really ever) break that lock would be very very bad behaviour. There are no such explicit promises with the "current" behaviour as you described.
Locking portrait, meanwhile, isn't even disturbed when you get a phone call.
well yes, reason i mentioned them was in reply to to dugbug who fears the "pain" of "entering street fighter combo moves" to "go to the next track"
since "go to next track" is a double click, i wonder how dugbug manages to cope with the pain of opening files, apps or folders on his desktop or laptop every day.
i did mention the permutations of 3 clicks in my previous reply to you, there was no mention of "click quadrice", stop obfuscating.
take care, have a nice evening
-B-
Basic multitasking question: am I right that a single home click quits the app (as before) while a double click brings up the multitask window keeping the app running?
Isn't that very confusing: if I accidentally single click the app is completely closed and I have to load it again?
Isn't that very confusing: if I accidentally single click the app is completely closed and I have to load it again?