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Video of New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3
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I'm posting because I can. Again, I don't see how picking up an iPad would help me understand that 3,4,5 finger gestures do different things. This is something that would have to be taught, which is not what Apple is necessarily about.
Just because you can post (this subject, not referring to your intelligence), doesn't mean you should. You can yell fire in a crowded movie theatre, but you wouldn't. If you have never used an iPad your statements lose credibility.
Anyway, back to what Apple is about and things you have to learn to use an iPhone or iPad. Syncing your phone to itunes, buying apps, creating folders, double clicking to get the multitask window, holding down the power and home button to capture the screen image....the list goes on and on.
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Yes exactly, but in order to truly do that there has to be no buttons or anything that would differentiate one side from another.
I think it is great in theory an these new gestures look cool and I'll use them, but there are potential issues as well as I point out below.
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 ...
Haha, ya it will be interesting to see what they do. I think if they do axe the home button they will get a lot of complaints like the iPod Shuffle fiasco again.
On the iPad it wouldn't be as bad because you do use two hand when you use the iPad, but on the iPhone it could cause some usability issues. And what about accessibility and people that don't have all their fingers?
I am getting a bit tired of this whole multitouch load of crap. Yes, let me get all five fingers on my phone to try to get back to the main screen. I'll go back to using a regular phone if this happens. This "touch" fad has gone too far if this is true.
You'll need to have a basic understanding of the subject before being able to comment with any authority. It's like commenting about how a Porsche drives just because you saw a photo of it on a magazine.
In reference to your comment above, if you still don't know how to use all your 5 fingers, I would suggest you try scratching your back; good exercise...
What are you talking about??? Learn to read first. The title of this thread says: "Video of Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3".
It doesn't say it's for the iPhone, so your comment was completely out of place.
Hey, I just found out that the five finger pinch overrides even the home button. If you launch an app and get a popup Push/Location request, usually when you click the home button, nothing happens. You have to click either "Don't Allow" or "OK" to dismiss the request, at which point you can close the app with the home button. However, with these new gestures, if you do the five finger pinch, the app closes, even if there is a message. I don't know if this is just a temporary glitch, or what, but I like it.
Just found this out and was blown away by it.
Anybody who has the 4.3 on their iPad do this.
Launch an app, and SLOWLY pinch with 4 fingers. The iPad will play the quit animation live, allowing you to peak at the home screen without ever shutting the app. This also works for switching apps.
Sorry if this has been mentioned already!
Anybody who has the 4.3 on their iPad do this.
Launch an app, and SLOWLY pinch with 4 fingers. The iPad will play the quit animation live, allowing you to peak at the home screen without ever shutting the app. This also works for switching apps.
Sorry if this has been mentioned already!
You get the option of the single finger, two finger, home button, "classic" method OR using the multiple finger method. Just go to settings and you make your choice how you want to do it.
AAPL, again, has clearly thought this out. Even for the child with just one little finger with which to work.
We all know we have the choice with the current generation of hardware -- they all have home buttons, which aren't going anywhere. What some people are concerned about is that once the multi-finger gestures are perfected, Apple might remove the home button from future generatarions of iDevices. If that happens, then there would be no more choice -- it'd be multi-finger gestures or nothing.
I think that there is a lot of people that still think that the iPad can't multitask (or even the iPhone for that matters).
The current app switching mechanism doesn't have enough visual punch in Apple ads for people to absorb the information that the iPad is indeed able to multitask, especially compared to previous ads from competitor's phones showing app switching using animated 3d-ish thumbnails of the apps.
When competing tablets begin their aggressive advertising campaigns, you'll see that all of them will showcase their app-switching mechanism, involving smoothly animated thumbnails with cool effects (Android with custom skins, RIM's Playbook, HP's Palm OS).
Apple certainly needs an app switching mechanism that can visually convey that multi-tasking is indeed possible on iOS and is also quick and easy. These new gestures and the app switching swipes will certainly make great ads to show just that. And I don't think that Apple is adding these new features only for the visual punch, they also think it's the best way to do it.
What you don't see in the new app switching mechanism on iOS is app thumbnails. I think that Apple realized that it's not the best way to do app-switching, despite them creating and promoting Exposé.
Switching context using thumbnails can be useful in some cases, such as switching between "sub-windows" of an app, like in Safari. But for global app switching, what do you think is on average easier to spot:
-The thumbnail showing the ever-changing content of an app
-The app icon, which is constant and never changes.
I would say that it depends on how long ago you used the app that you're looking for. If you used it recently you probably still has the actual content in mind, and a thumbnail certainly can help, but since you used it recently it's probably only one or two swipes away in iOS 4.3. If on the other hand you used the app a few days ago, you may probably not remember the content as well and you might be better served by an icon row or grid.
Also, thumbnails have a varying usefulness depending on the app and its current content, sometimes it's hard to differentiate between multiple thumbnails.
So while thumbnails might be useful for fast-app switching, they're only helpful for the last 2-3 apps launched, which is where fast-app switching matters. I think that the new iOS swipe app-switching mechanism will be on average quicker and even more intuitive in these cases, especially since switching quickly between only two apps is what you'll need the majority of the time.
The current app switching mechanism doesn't have enough visual punch in Apple ads for people to absorb the information that the iPad is indeed able to multitask, especially compared to previous ads from competitor's phones showing app switching using animated 3d-ish thumbnails of the apps.
When competing tablets begin their aggressive advertising campaigns, you'll see that all of them will showcase their app-switching mechanism, involving smoothly animated thumbnails with cool effects (Android with custom skins, RIM's Playbook, HP's Palm OS).
Apple certainly needs an app switching mechanism that can visually convey that multi-tasking is indeed possible on iOS and is also quick and easy. These new gestures and the app switching swipes will certainly make great ads to show just that. And I don't think that Apple is adding these new features only for the visual punch, they also think it's the best way to do it.
What you don't see in the new app switching mechanism on iOS is app thumbnails. I think that Apple realized that it's not the best way to do app-switching, despite them creating and promoting Exposé.
Switching context using thumbnails can be useful in some cases, such as switching between "sub-windows" of an app, like in Safari. But for global app switching, what do you think is on average easier to spot:
-The thumbnail showing the ever-changing content of an app
-The app icon, which is constant and never changes.
I would say that it depends on how long ago you used the app that you're looking for. If you used it recently you probably still has the actual content in mind, and a thumbnail certainly can help, but since you used it recently it's probably only one or two swipes away in iOS 4.3. If on the other hand you used the app a few days ago, you may probably not remember the content as well and you might be better served by an icon row or grid.
Also, thumbnails have a varying usefulness depending on the app and its current content, sometimes it's hard to differentiate between multiple thumbnails.
So while thumbnails might be useful for fast-app switching, they're only helpful for the last 2-3 apps launched, which is where fast-app switching matters. I think that the new iOS swipe app-switching mechanism will be on average quicker and even more intuitive in these cases, especially since switching quickly between only two apps is what you'll need the majority of the time.
The application switchers designed by Nokia, Google and RIM include both the app icon and its current state.
You don't have to use their stock market symbol every time you mention Apple.
Location
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since the language of the ipad used in the video seem to be set to German, I was curious where this video was taken. Altough you just see a "clean" map at the beginning of the video, at 0:29 you can spot the blue location indicator ... to me it locates the device on Stolberger Str. in Cologne / Germany.
See here and compare: maps
*** off topic ***
since the language of the ipad used in the video seem to be set to German, I was curious where this video was taken. Altough you just see a "clean" map at the beginning of the video, at 0:29 you can spot the blue location indicator ... to me it locates the device on Stolberger Str. in Cologne / Germany.
See here and compare: maps