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Video of New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3
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I like the way your thinking. A screen of most recently ran apps that has like 4 large windows that show what you were doing last. Like Safari's most visited pages and small app icons of ones that have ran not so recently. That would make a nice iPad expose. Hold the ipad in landscape and you get 6 windows and more apps along the bottom. Maybe even swipe those across.
WOAH, this is amazing. This is seriously the best innovation in iOS yet, apart from multi tasking. I always found the home button a bit clumsy to use: click once for this, twice for that, three times for whatever, etc... Plus when you're navigating on the screen, going to use the home button is like swapping between the keyboard and the mouse, it takes time and you need to look to find the button instead of intuitively just "swiping".
The stretch effect when there are no other apps to swipe through is awesome.
The stretch effect when there are no other apps to swipe through is awesome.
It's amazing the lack of seriousness people take the developer NDA they agreed to. A screenshot is one thing, but a video on youtube? Ridiculous. I'm sure if their own NDA'd software was leaked, they'd have a different opinion.
But anyway, it's about f ing time Apple implemented system gestures like this. I'm not sure how this will affect multitouch 3rd-party apps. Assuming there's an API way to override the system gestures (though doubtful), the Home button would have to remain as a backup.
What I'm surprised at is the lack of gesture love on iPhones. I understand four fingers is a bit much on that screen, but why not three fingers? How many apps use three-finger gestures? Can't be many. The double-tap on Home button on the iPhone is just as if not more annoying than the iPad.
But anyway, it's about f ing time Apple implemented system gestures like this. I'm not sure how this will affect multitouch 3rd-party apps. Assuming there's an API way to override the system gestures (though doubtful), the Home button would have to remain as a backup.
What I'm surprised at is the lack of gesture love on iPhones. I understand four fingers is a bit much on that screen, but why not three fingers? How many apps use three-finger gestures? Can't be many. The double-tap on Home button on the iPhone is just as if not more annoying than the iPad.
I just mean that normally there's a great honking list of *new* features added in the .5's or say 5.0, I'd have thought multi-touch gestures would have been a bigger thing!
Good point, though I hope Apple would't be dumb enough to get rid of the home button, or any others.
I think the Home button will stay put because:
1. You need it to reboot...unless they create an onscreen button for that
2. Apple is trying to make the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS X Lion look/feel similar, so users can move from one to the other seamlessly. Keeping the home button on both the iPhone and iPad helps with that consistency.
I'm looking forward to the gestures...love them on my Macbook and Magic Trackpad....great update for sure!
Also, I like that you can choose what the side button does, mute or screen orientation lock. Very nice...Apple listened!
1. You need it to reboot...unless they create an onscreen button for that
2. Apple is trying to make the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS X Lion look/feel similar, so users can move from one to the other seamlessly. Keeping the home button on both the iPhone and iPad helps with that consistency.
I'm looking forward to the gestures...love them on my Macbook and Magic Trackpad....great update for sure!
Also, I like that you can choose what the side button does, mute or screen orientation lock. Very nice...Apple listened!
So
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- I swipe and cut 5 fruit at a time in fruit ninja
- I slide 4 fingers along my piano app.
- I try to use 4/5 finger swipes in Bebot to play music
and countless other apps.
How does Apple envisage this is actually going to work in practice, and will it not stifle the possibilities for developers and users in-app.
- I swipe and cut 5 fruit at a time in fruit ninja
- I slide 4 fingers along my piano app.
- I try to use 4/5 finger swipes in Bebot to play music
and countless other apps.
How does Apple envisage this is actually going to work in practice, and will it not stifle the possibilities for developers and users in-app.
That's taking what is currently pressing a button with 1 finger and changing it to requiring your entire hand. A five finger squeeze gesture on an iPhone is not user friendly.
If they want to neaten the front of the phone, make the home button the entire lower part of the phone, a bit like the trackpads on Macbooks. It doesn't have to look like there's a button there.
this is so true, I bet that is exactly what Steve's master plan is!It would actually make the device more durable too - with a sealed power button it could be completely dust & water proof.
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Although its cool that android 3.0 is basically touch-only, I don't believe the point is to lose the buttons per se, but to create orientation independence for tablets.
MacFly123 said:
Although its cool that android 3.0 is basically touch-only, I don't believe the point is to lose the buttons per se, but to create orientation independence for tablets.
4.3 is shaping up to be really good! I hope these features are coming to the 3GS though. :/ I'm not so sure about especially the hotspot feature. It would be so typical if such a powerful feature was removed.
I would be OK with no home button on an iPad, but as for iPhones, I really need that one since I'm often using it with only one hand. No good way to do a five finger gesture on one hand without dropping it.
Indeed. It's obvious that Steve Jobs doesn't use public transportation; holding a hand strap on a speeding train with one hand while attempting to use five finger gestures with the other ...
Amazing!
Apple never ceases to amaze me. These gestures take a amazing product and make it even better. Way to go Apple, keep up the good work. I can't wait till this iOS update is released.
Apple never ceases to amaze me. These gestures take a amazing product and make it even better. Way to go Apple, keep up the good work. I can't wait till this iOS update is released.