This is great, but where is copy/paste? And could it be ANY more difficult to share a contacts number etc...
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Multi-Touch Swipe Gestures for iPhone Keyboard
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to all of the "apple should be working on X, Y, or Z improvement, not wasting time with this extra stuff thats cool but we dont need":
this is a patent. apple is (probably) not working on this, at all. not trying to develop it. they just had an idea in a brainstorming session, and want to make sure that IF in the distant future they ever want to use it, nobody else got to it first. so they wrote up a patent. but the actual developers doing software for these things likely never even were consulted. I doubt that we will see this for a long, LONG time to come, and rightly so. Cupertino's got its' priorities straight.
this is a patent. apple is (probably) not working on this, at all. not trying to develop it. they just had an idea in a brainstorming session, and want to make sure that IF in the distant future they ever want to use it, nobody else got to it first. so they wrote up a patent. but the actual developers doing software for these things likely never even were consulted. I doubt that we will see this for a long, LONG time to come, and rightly so. Cupertino's got its' priorities straight.
Still no copy and paste???
Enough with all the freaking useless gestures.
Here's my middle finger gesture to Apple for being so retarded as not to add copy and paste after 16 months of millions of users asking for it...
Enough with all the freaking useless gestures.
Here's my middle finger gesture to Apple for being so retarded as not to add copy and paste after 16 months of millions of users asking for it...
They're not useless, they operate features of the phone. If they were useless they then would do that, would they?
Here's my middle finger gesture to Apple for being so retarded as not to add copy and paste after 16 months of millions of users asking for it...
Now that you have been bleating about it for those same 16 months, could you pipe down about it for a while? I think we get the message.
Did anyone try a test run of using gestures for functions like space and delete? I tried doing it and it feels really awkward. It actually seems much faster to just tab the space key instead of having to do an actual motion. Maybe it just takes some time to adjust but I felt it made my typing slower.
They are useless, at this time, since there are more important things users have been asking about for a year and a half.
Instead of introducing new things, they should take care of the requests and listen to us.
Apple should be looking at why the iPhone is the best phone out there but not forgetting there are too many things to address before it really beats the rest.
how about some f*$king copy/paste?!
My girlfriend has a POS $29 samsung phone. She tried to send me a picture she took via MMS. Of course, I didn't get s**t... She thought I was joking when I told her I can't receive MMS. She went on and on about how cool the iPhone is and still can't do a simple task like a picture attachment on a message.
Pisses me off that
doesn't listen.
They should also have a number lock instead of all this unimpressive stuff. It pisses me off that every time you are typing a number and need to type a space in between it cancels off the numbers!!!!
Surely if we just end up with hundreds of different types of swipes and motions etc., it's just going to become impractical to learn them all.
Couldn't they make a gesture that involves cut&paste... I know that after this long it most likely will never happen but it would be so easy to incorporate. Annoying really, it's like Apple is toying with us.
it's thousands of symbols chinese have to learn, and they have to start studying them at age 3 in order to ever master them sufficiently to be considered well educated.
in addition, lots of the signs have become obsolete, making the learning even more tedious. 200 years ago it probably made sense that fish + sheep = fresh, but nowadays no-one understands the connection without learning it first.
chinese symbols are fascinating, but i really don't think that's the way mobile phone usage should go...
looking forward to this. i think apple needs to take advantage of this kind of stuff with the iphone.
It's about time!
Too bad it took Apple this long to get this idea out. Palm has been doing gestures like that for a while now with Graffiti but being able to do such things on an iPod Touch or iPhone will make it a hell of a lot easier to type on.
Next thing we need is XT9 like the other phones have so that the buttons can be bigger and inputing text much faster.
Too bad it took Apple this long to get this idea out. Palm has been doing gestures like that for a while now with Graffiti but being able to do such things on an iPod Touch or iPhone will make it a hell of a lot easier to type on.
Next thing we need is XT9 like the other phones have so that the buttons can be bigger and inputing text much faster.
I'm all for the gestures, but I think Apple could do a lot more to make the basic typing more intelligent. For example, If I type "folwer", it never at any point suggests "flower", which, at least towards the end, is by far the most obvious word. The same for "flpwer". In this case, the 'p' is right next to the 'o' button, and the iPhone should know this and guess that I fat-fingered one letter.
I can see me using those gestures...They could also introduce a pinch like one for copy-paste! I mean given that the software and the hardware is ready for it i seem unable to understand why it's not already there. Two fingers highlighting a part of the text,a menu popping up with copy/paste options and voilla there you go Meh anyways those gestures are a sweet add on to the already amazing experience ^^
Meh anyways those gestures are a sweet add on to the already amazing experience ^^
how about some f*$king copy/paste?!
that and the ability to create new text documents like MS Word and/or Pages like all other smartphones.
My friend has a POS $50 Nokia. She was about to send me a picture she took via MMS. Then she realized that she would be paying damn near $0.50 to send me a low-res version of something only mildly amusing. She e-mailed the picture instead, I could view it, and neither of us had to pay additional money to AT&T.
All other smartphones? Exaggerate much?
Very very few smartphones can create Word documents. Besides, how often do people really edit Word documents on their phones...
You don't research much do you.
Most smartphone do, not just the ones that run Palm OS or Windows Mobile.
And obviously someone that doesn't know that wouldn't be able to comprehend people creating, editing, sending, printing such documents from their phones.
Are you serious?
Not to mention the amount of iPhone fans that seem to think the iPhone is a much better device to carry around then their Macbooks. Giving the phone the ability to do such things would justify leaving the laptop at home even more.
I am starting to think many people weren't aware of the features of smartphones and PDAs for the past decade and a half.
You don't research much do you.
Most smartphone do, not just the ones that run Palm OS or Windows Mobile.
And obviously someone that doesn't know that wouldn't be able to comprehend people creating, editing, sending, printing such documents from their phones.
Are you serious?
Not to mention the amount of iPhone fans that seem to think the iPhone is a much better device to carry around then their Macbooks. Giving the phone the ability to do such things would justify leaving the laptop at home even more.
I am starting to think many people weren't aware of the features of smartphones and PDAs for the past decade and a half.
Mmm.. I love the smell of ad hominem in the morning.
Anyways, yes I am aware that some (not most) smartphones offer this feature. As someone who used to own a phone that boasted Office support, I can say: it was completely useless. Typing edits of any non-trivial size is a pain on any pretty much any mobile keyboard.
And printing? Really? I've _never_ seen someone print a document from their cellphone, barring demonstrations of the capability.
Do some people use these features? I'm sure they do. I'm also sure that the vast majority of users don't -- and since Apple has limited resources, it makes sense for them to provide features that are usable by the majority of their users, rather than a handful of power users who'll go out of their way to use every feature their phone offers, no matter how poor of a "desktop replacement" it may be.
Mmm.. I love the smell of ad hominem in the morning.
Anyways, yes I am aware that some (not most) smartphones offer this feature. As someone who used to own a phone that boasted Office support, I can say: it was completely useless. Typing edits of any non-trivial size is a pain on any pretty much any mobile keyboard.
And printing? Really? I've _never_ seen someone print a document from their cellphone, barring demonstrations of the capability.
Do some people use these features? I'm sure they do. I'm also sure that the vast majority of users don't -- and since Apple has limited resources, it makes sense for them to provide features that are usable by the majority of their users, rather than a handful of power users who'll go out of their way to use every feature their phone offers, no matter how poor of a "desktop replacement" it may be.
I am not starting this bu!!$h!t with you dude.
Check out the other smartphones on the market, what has been here and what is currently on the market. Fact: smartphones do it. Fact: iPhone doesn't. Fact: You are posing your own logical fallacies as well, so don't start pulling that ad hominem $h!t. Let me know when you stop using your own personal experience to prove your own biased opinion and assumptions.
Otherwise ****.
I think that would be a great idea, and just another example of how you could use these gestures.
I think Apple has done and will continue to do a good job of recognizing inadvertent touches and improving the multi-touch of the iphone and macbooks. Look at the Unibody Macbook trackpad, its amazing with recognizing inadvertent touches.
I would beg to differ, I foresee this being put into one of the next couple firmwares.