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

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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there is no way that area is one pixel, remember with the retina display you cant see the pixels :).

I have issues hitting the drop down arrow sometimes but mostly neveri find tapping just below it opens the drop down info just fine a little above though will take to the app card



****update just found update for the atari's greatest hits

I can tap anywhere on the update list other that the Icon (takes you to the app card) or the update button and it drops the arrow down seems Apple has resolved the tiny area issue
 
Sankersizzle said:
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:.
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Something is going on here. I've noticed that things have gotten a lot better as well. It's as if some of these fixes can be done on the backend or through the app in a quiet way.

I'm not getting the same sensitivity for the tap area that I was a week ago. Thought it was just me.
 
Tom G. said:
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.
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Did you hear the whoosh sound as you wrote this to insult me without reading the thread?
 
Totally agree with the OP. I can never seem to hit it in the right place, and then boom, i'm taken to the product page.
 
bbfc said:
Totally agree with the OP. I can never seem to hit it in the right place, and then boom, i'm taken to the product page.
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Thankfully that part of it has been addressed as of a week ago or so--now only touching the app icon itself will take you to the product page, while touching anywhere else (not counting the update button) will expand the area and display the latest changes that are in the new version.
 
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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Fantastic post +1

I notice this all the time, as I like to read what the update contains (usually to see if iPhone 5 support is there - then I update anyway lol)
 
nuckinfutz said:
Something is going on here. I've noticed that things have gotten a lot better as well. It's as if some of these fixes can be done on the backend or through the app in a quiet way.

I'm not getting the same sensitivity for the tap area that I was a week ago. Thought it was just me.
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The AppStore is just a webpage, there isn't anything actually on the phone so it doesn't really need to be updated.
 
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