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Apple Researching 'Physics Metaphor' Gestures for Inter-Device Communication
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To all those dissing and down-rating the ideas described, this is why Apple are the forward thinking geniuses that they are, and why you're not in Apple R&D - you can't see further into time than possibly a max of one year ahead of you!
Great, Apple - even if these ideas don't make it, at least if they do, we know they'll be executed to perfection!
Great, Apple - even if these ideas don't make it, at least if they do, we know they'll be executed to perfection!
At first I was like "Oh coool" then I thought about it.
Who wants to sit there hold a phone while a huge file slowly drips off the phone and onto the ipad. I get smartphones and new computers so I can skip the laws of physics.
Let me press a button and have the thing magically appear on the other device please.
Who wants to sit there hold a phone while a huge file slowly drips off the phone and onto the ipad. I get smartphones and new computers so I can skip the laws of physics.
Let me press a button and have the thing magically appear on the other device please.
They work! Have you not tried?
Drop kick an iPhone against a wall, in order to shut it off permanently and secure your data. Much easier than screwing open the case and pulling out the battery. Apple really do think of everything...
(If it doesn't work the first time, try again. You're kicking it wrong.)
You got very good sense of humour.
Funny you say that when enterprise adoption is picking up. The FAA recently approved the iPad for use in cockpits. What pilots would normally store in a briefcase as hard copies, pilots can store on an iPad.
If the idea was already there in WebOS, nothing was preventing HP (or Palm depending on when it was invented) from patenting the technology.
In our research for synchronizing multitouch terminals with mobile devices, we are using a "frisbee metaphor": the person selects a media on his mobile phone and while selecting it he can throw it towards the terminal: then the media appears on the multitouch screen.
It might be another possible physic metaphor for inter-device communication.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJhFqflSRA
It might be another possible physic metaphor for inter-device communication.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJhFqflSRA
You know the only glory in these kind of inventions belongs to the guys named on the patents. The rest of you fanboying this stuff is pathetic. Go out and get a PhD in Engineering and then you can invent cool stuff.
Funny how people dismissing the "gimmicky" nature of these gestures go back to swiping and pinching on their iDevice or trackpad. Seem to recall the same things said about those. While it's unlikely all of them will make it into a production product, those that do will become as natural as swipe-unlock.
One fundamental problem remains with touch devices. The screen gets oily and dirty. Cleaning it is also a problem because you can't just use a paper towel dabbed with water. You have to use these expensive microfiber cloths that need cleaning every week. I'm actually shocked at how many iPhone users are perfectly happy using gunked up screens.
I wipe mine on my pants. Apple's glass isn't like spectacle lenses. And if you can tap or swipe while it's dirty, you can pour or flick. New gestures won't change the need (in either direction) for a clean screen. Indeed, the "pour" one requires less screen contact.
Yet if you read Apple's official cleaning instructions they say only to use microfiber cloths. Basically use anything else at your own risk.
I seem to recall either Steve or another exec demoing cleaning the screen with a simple wipe. Mine doesn't have a scratch on it. If you're that concerned, get a screen protector. Wipe the thing on your pants, change the protector when it's absorbed all that damage we're supposed to be afraid of. No more cloth carrying.
And again, it doesn't make these gestures a bad idea. Their implementation, usability and natural-ness makes them a good or bad idea.
The problem with those stick-on protectors is I can't ever get them perfectly aligned(on iPod Touch). Am I missing something?
I have no idea. To paraphrase the App Store, there's probably a chromosome for that. Like the one for curling your tongue. Some people have it, some don't.
I don't know. If in doubt, ask the nearest 10 year old.
