If you're thinking about switching on your next refresh because the UI and text are too small for you to use comfortably on your retina iPhone, vote this up.
How about you cats with fighter pilot eyes and toothpick size fingers think about people whose bodies aren't like yours?
Apple has been my weapon of choice since 1985, longer than some of you "no, just no" folks have been alive. So, what? Well, I'm getting to the point where even with glasses, I can't see the tiny type on my retina 4s. Further, it would be great to have larger targets to manipulate.
1. Take your iPhone 5.
2. Hold it a few inches closer to your face.
3. Boom, bigger screen!
That you still can't see, if you've got presbyopia - a common affliction.
pinch to zoom? three finger accessibility salute? - scroll each line to read
reader? - great if the 'made for mobile' page allows it
font size in control panel? - doesn't affect apps
All solved to a large degree with a scaled up iPhone, cf. the popularity of Nintendo's DSI/3DS XL consoles. Same horrid res, just bigger - and wildly popular with young (and old!). Just think, if you debased the wonderful res of the retina iPhone slightly in the name of accessibility, how popular would that be ...? and it still wouldn't be HORRIBLE res.
NO ONE WANTS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RETINA IPHONE. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A ONE FINGER RETINA PHONE. STOP STOMPING THE ALTERNATIVE!
2/10 don't bother.
The UI isn't redone, it's just made bigger. that's not what Apple needs to do! They need to rework the UI so it works better on the bigger screen instead of just stretching (pinch-to-zooming IRL if you will) the UI elements.
For people with No PIN or PIN = 1111 the lock screen is fine. For people who have to use 'turn off simple passphrase' and answer comms in the middle of the night, the portrait lockscreen is a forced UI choice that stinks.
That's one example where a
better UI would be great, but this is fixed somewhat by just making the pixels bigger.
iPhone5+ or HTC for my 4s successor? Apple, you decide.
Pardon the slightly caustic post - trying to get the attention of the "no, just no" types. I don't hate you!