Anyone else find the gestures intuitive?

[AppleRobert]

I was pulling pretty far up from the bottom of the X to get to home screen, it isn’t necessary as all you really have to do is flick it a bit from the bottom. Try it if you did not know that.

Also I did not know you could switch to opened apps from the bottom of the home screen, the scroll bar is not there but I found out that did not matter. Makes using the X even better. Try that also.

 

[sean000]

I don't have the X yet, but it's a continuation of the additional gestures we have seen get added to iOS over time. I'm wondering if it will get annoying for those of us who use an iPad and an Apple Watch to add the iPhone X to the mix. Now we have three devices that have some common gestures as well as some unique gestures. Will going between the iPad and iPhone feel as seamless as it has in the past? I'm sure I will manage because I have a high threshold for this sort of thing.

What about people who barely know how to use their iPhones? The beauty of the home button has been that you could tell someone that, no matter what screen they are in, simply press the Home button to go back to the main screen. Anyone can press a button, but have you ever watched someone who isn't comfortable with technology try to use gestures that involve swiping? My 83 year old mother can use her iPhone 6 Plus to make calls, use Facetime, iMessage, Photos, etc. without much difficulty. I'm not sure she would find the iPhone X as easy to use. For now that's not really an issue because Apple still sells devices with the Home button. A few years from now?

Sean

 

[KingslayerG5]

If it's intuitive now, it was intuitive back then.

Difference was Palm, Research In Motion, and Nokia were hemorrhaging money circa 2011. I compare Palm to what Sega did with the Dreamcast.

While BlackBerry PlayBook and Nokia N9 were DOA in 2011 and were like Atari Jaguar and Panasonic 3DO that arrived at the wrong time just when iPhone vs Galaxy / iOS vs Android rivalry got fiercer.

And they were doing all that with maybe only 256 MB - 512 MB of RAM? PlayBook only had a gig of RAM. The animations look slow now but imagine giving them modern specs?

Back in 2009-2011, that was insane software that nobody paid attention to. They were the underdogs.

Best UI -
QNX
webOS
Meego/Sailfish
BB10

I could never get into BB10. It no longer was as intuitive as QNX when I tried playing with a Z30. They should have just copied the Palm Pre card UI with the swipe up gesture.

Matias Duarte is going to add that swipe up home gesture. Just watch. Android Pie/Popsicle will get it. Bring back the card UI.