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What in the Hey Was Apple Thinking With the 1-Pixel Hit Area in the Appstore?

I can tap the arrow with my thumb, hell I could probably tap it with my nose if I wanted. You don't even have to click directly on the arrow. Anywhere near it works.

I do have to agree though, the app store is horrible. I'm lucky if it ever works for me.
 
Pagemakers said:
Totally agree. It's absolutely infuriating.

Also the 'more reviews' button at the bottom of the reviews page is not big enough. I keep accidentally pressing the genius button.
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Same here, I hate this. I thought there might be something wrong with my screen or something, this was happening so often. And if you navigated to the app's page from outside the App Store, the only way to get back to the page is to leave the App Store and return the way you came.
 
Agree with the OP here and anyone saying otherwise is a lying trollish fanboy. They do need to expand the touch input area a bit because it's so easy to hit off target the way it's done currently.

That and how the search results are displayed as cards are my only two gripes about the new layout. I like the rest.
 
SomeDudeAsking said:
When there are updates for apps you have in the Appstore, you can click on the "Updates" tab to see all of them. Underneath each one is a little inverted triangle that if you touch properly, it will show you the update notes the developer gave for the update. The problem is, Apple made the hit area for the inverted triangle only 1-pixel!!! And this is suppose to be touch friendly??? If you click anywhere but exactly that 1-pixel in the centre of the inverted triangle, you don't get the update notes but are instead taken to the regular screenshots page for the app. Most of the time if I try to touch the inverted triangle, it will take me to the wrong screen.

If Steve were still alive, he would never have allowed this glaring mistake. For a touch screen device, a 1-pixel hit area is totally unacceptable.
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They seem to have fixed this. This morning when I checked my updates, I didn't even have to click the arrow to see the changelog. You can just tap the app and rather than kicking you to its page on the App Store, the changelog appears.
 
Tiptizzle said:
Did they release an update to iOS?
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They don't have to, the layout elements are served from the store itself, so it's a server side configuration change.

(That's the reason why the App Store performs like a dog, but at least it's a win here...)

EDIT: Erm... why does the screen flash blue when you touch it now?
 
The Phazer said:
They don't have to, the layout elements are served from the store itself, so it's a server side configuration change.

(That's the reason why the App Store performs like a dog, but at least it's a win here...)

EDIT: Erm... why does the screen flash blue when you touch it now?
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Because quality control at Apple sucks.
 
Not sure how the "What's New" behavior changed since there obviously hasn't been an iOS update. They must've changed something on the backend.

Ever since the Apple event on Tuesday, I've noticed that the when I go to Updates, the entire app listing is now a target that will show "What's New" when I tap it. No more trying to tap that pesky arrow!

EDIT: Aaaand. . .it's obviously been noticed by everybody on this thread already. Late to the party as usual. Doh! :rolleyes:
 
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avanpelt said:
Not sure how the "What's New" behavior changed since there obviously hasn't been an iOS update. They must've changed something on the backend.
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The app stores are just front-ends for websites, so yes, they can easily change many things in them without an iOS update.
 
The OP is 100% correct. I'm shocked that there are people here criticizing him for making this post.

It's not just the fact that the line was small, it was the utter idiocy in the size of the touch target itself.

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There was no reason for this when they could have made it work much better with zero graphical change.

Basically, every time I read something about Scott Forstall these days it makes me more and more convinced that he needs to go. This little tiny arrow in the app store is a small thing (pun intended), but it's just one more straw on the camel's back of "reasons Forstall is bad or Apple now."

If anything, this just shows that the notification center 'x' debacle wasn't a mistake, but just another sign of how everything I currently don't like about Apple can be traced back to one man.

pk7 said:
They seem to have fixed this. This morning when I checked my updates, I didn't even have to click the arrow to see the changelog. You can just tap the app and rather than kicking you to its page on the App Store, the changelog appears.
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Thank god. I can't wait to see this, but I have to wait for an app to need updating.
 
Small White Car said:
The OP is 100% correct. I'm shocked that there are people here criticizing him for making this post.

It's not just the fact that the line was small, it was the utter idiocy in the size of the touch target itself.

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There was no reason for this when they could have made it work much better with zero graphical change.

Basically, every time I read something about Scott Forstall these days it makes me more and more convinced that he needs to go. This little tiny arrow in the app store is a small thing (pun intended), but it's just one more straw on the camel's back of "reasons Forstall is bad or Apple now."

If anything, this just shows that the notification center 'x' debacle wasn't a mistake, but just another sign of how everything I currently don't like about Apple can be traced back to one man.
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I agree. As much as I really like my iPhone and iOS in general, I regularly find myself noticing things that don't, to me, make sense or could be so easily improved.

Small White Car said:
pk7 said:
They seem to have fixed this. This morning when I checked my updates, I didn't even have to click the arrow to see the changelog. You can just tap the app and rather than kicking you to its page on the App Store, the changelog appears.
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Thank god. I can't wait to see this, but I have to wait for an app to need updating.
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I, too, can confirm that the tap target appears to have been greatly increased in size. Way more user friendly now...and kinda ridiculous that it was ever not so.

EDIT: the "new" tap target to expand the update details appears to encompass the entire update graphic with exceptions for the "Update" button (obviously) and the app icon, which takes you to the app's info page (makes sense). Small "issue" but really fricken annoying for those of us who read the details instead of blindly updating. 'Bout time, Apple!
 
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The OP exagerates a bit with the '1 pixel' number, but I agree on the general point that the touch zone is too small.

This is really surprising, one of the talk in the various Apple developer conferences is about this kind of thing, and they take a few minutes to explain how they research show that 44 pix in both directions is the magic number for a touch zone, and that anything lower is not a good experience for the user. They explain how in their apps, even though the icons are closer to 25 pixels or so, the touch zone is 44x44 (a toolbar is 44 pix wide).

Actually, whoever developed the new app store didn't follow that talk obviously. They also missed the background loading of pictures it looks like, scrolling in the app store (for example on iPad top charts) is painful, it is as smooth as Android..
 
CosmoPilot said:
Anyone else having the issue where you have to close the app and then click update to see what is actually available to download?

I'll update some apps. The app store runs in the background. A few days later, I'll have a badge on the app store app indicating new updates. I'll open the app, and updates tab at the bottom is already selected from days ago. However, nothing is displayed above...with the badge number still active.

I have to quit the app, re-launch it for it to actually show me the apps to update.

From the beginning of iOS6, the app store has been my biggest disappointment. They need to go back to the drawing board on this one.
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The OP is absolutely right about the infuriating hit area, and also this apps-needing-updates nonsense is very annoying My wife and I both have this issue with iPhone 5, and yes, we have to close the App Store manually and reopen it to fix it.

This is very, very unlike Apple, but then again, so is the whole iOS 6 App Store.
 
Anyone else notice the "update" hit area has been enlarged considerably? Clearly Apple has modified the App Store. This issue is no longer...an issue!
 
I had 14 apps to update today, eight of them had the more with the little triangle. To test the OP's complaint I tried it on each and every one. I purposely tapped on the "More" word rather than on the triangle. I had no problem at all they all worked.

I've never had a problem with this since the new system started. I think the OP has extremely fat fingers.

Missing the ubiquitous "Epic Fail" in the title.
 
It seems to have changed. The little triangle was annoying, but now I can tap the whole update note and it works, just like it used to in iOS 5.
 
To add some credence to the OP's story, I also have had the same issues in the past. They've seen to have gone away as of late, though.

And no, my fingers are pretty skinny. :rolleyes:.
 
The entire iOS6 AppStore itself is rubbish. I can't ever view my purchases ... not even after wiping the device entirely and starting from a fresh no-backup installation!!! I just keeps crashing out to the home screen!

There are so many ways they could have made this simpler and better.
 
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