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Who else hates all the landscape now?

I think its okay, but I am used to the portrait mode at this point. I think there can be an advantage for long emails, but other than that, portrait works fine.
 
I hate it too!

I never wanted Landscape, specially in Notes. I'm always writing long things before going to bed and when it goes Landscape for some reason i get mad, lol. I thought it was just me!.

I can't wait to see apple adding that as an option.
 
The solution for landscape in bed is to put the home button on top. First put your phone in landscape then position your phone that so the bottom is the top. The phone won't rotate again.
 
Warbrain said:
Thanks. Any more deep thoughts?
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:eek: :apple: :eek: Official Apple Protip: if you hate landscape mode, try using your phone in portrait... What a revolutionary concept.



P.S. If you don't like either:

Step 1: Grip your phone tightly with one hand...
Step 2: Shove it slowly up your anus...
Step 3: Start a thread on MacRumors explaining your discontent.
 
chrisblore said:
I don't mean to be a smart arse but couldn't you just stop it from going landscape by not rotating the phone? Or am I missing the point :confused:
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The OP has an inner ear problem so they fall down and flip around a lot.

Turning the phone is unavoidable.
 
I despise it! I can't stand trying to read email/webpages when the damn screen is twisting all of the time.

Give us the option to turn it off!

And I agree with others. WHINE WHINE WHINE, if the whiners get their landscape keyboard, then we can get our option to toggle it off.
 
I've always thought that people only really thought they wanted a landscape keyboard because in theory a bigger keyboard is better, when in reality it's much harder to type on. People seem to forget that the iPhone keyboard isn't like any other keyboard, lets say you have big thumbs, the iPhone keyboard is smart enough to know which letter you meant to type. To gain speed on the iPhone keyboard you need to trust it. It kind of makes me smile when I'm zipping right along in portrait mode and I'm essentially typing in jibberish and the iPhone knew what I meant to say. It went from "Okay the fact the iPhone doesn't have a physical keyboard sucks" to "This is the best keyboard I've ever used".
 
cualexander said:
Pre 3.0 I had a jailbreak hack that would turn off the rotation in safari. it was useful if you were laying in bed and didn't want it rotating all the time.

So it's possible to turn this stuff off. just don't expect it from Apple. Even 3.0 still warrants the jailbreak
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Please tell me what the name of the app is? I do prefer typing in landscape but reading Safari in bed on my back is extremely annoying.
 
TurboSC said:
:eek: :apple: :eek: Official Apple Protip: if you hate landscape mode, try using your phone in portrait... What a revolutionary concept.



P.S. If you don't like either:

Step 1: Grip your phone tightly with one hand...
Step 2: Shove it slowly up your anus...
Step 3: Start a thread on MacRumors explaining your discontent.
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What's your problem? Some of us want to lie down and be able to type in bed/on a couch without putting both our arms over our chest and suspending the iPhone in front of our face. If we do this now, the screen orients itself perpendicular to our body. It's a simple complaint, and completely legitimate. They should have a toggle when they change something like this.

Again, why are you so vehement about this issue? Whining is saying, "The SMS app got renamed, I don't like it!". Legitimate gripes exist...
 
uberamd said:
It is to some extent though. Realistically, what product fits exactly what you want to do all the time? My riding lawnmower shuts off every time you get off the seat (if a branch needs to be moved for example). I learned to adapt by sitting on a 50LB weight plate so when I get up there is still enough weight on the seat to not shut the mower off. See what I am getting at?

Everyone has different preferences for a device they own, some people love feature Z, others hate it with a passion. The best way to get through life is alert the proper channels if you really believe they will make a change, and then move on and work with it. Thats all I am trying to say, makes life a lot less stressful when people aren't getting bent about relatively minor things.
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So you learn to adapt, eh? Did you learn to adapt to the lack of landscape keyboard for 2 years or were you in here bitching about it just like you're criticizing other people for doing?
 
I gotta say, I'm the one that started this thread and even I'm surprised by all the replies here.

I really thought I was one of 3 guys in the world to care about this, but apparently there's more of us than I thought.

Thanks for all the fun, I really thought that "sucks to be you" was going to be the only response I'd get!
 
Small White Car said:
I gotta say, I'm the one that started this thread and even I'm surprised by all the replies here.

I really thought I was one of 3 guys in the world to care about this, but apparently there's more of us than I thought.

Thanks for all the fun, I really thought that "sucks to be you" was going to be the only response I'd get!
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Totally a legit gripe with Apple. I agree with you.

It's not like this is one of TheSpaz's things where we're complaining about some button being in the wrong place by 1 pixel. This is a legitimate functionality issue.

It's frustrating that the same people who were complaining "OMG why isnt ther a landscape keybord for text1ng!!!!!1!!" are now the ones belittling telling the people who never wanted a landscape keyboard to "deal with it!" Yeah, because they "dealt with it" so well for 2 years.

People are so hypocritical it's scary (myself included)
 
Nah, there are plenty of people that don't like the landscape.

But for me, I can type WAY faster on it and I can explain why. As my signature indicates, I started on a RIM950 as far as full QWERTY keyboards go. Here is a picture of one:

950-1.jpg


Not only does the iPhone in Landscape mode vaguely resemble that in shape, but the way I type on a phone might be unique to just me. When I type on a smart phone, I use my thumbs and middle (bird) fingers to hold the phone. And I use my index fingers to type.

Weird I realize, but I have always typed faster this way than the tradition thumb mehtod.
 
Rat-Boy said:
Nah, there are plenty of people that don't like the landscape.

But for me, I can type WAY faster on it and I can explain why. As my signature indicates, I started on a RIM950 as far as full QWERTY keyboards go. Here is a picture of one:

950-1.jpg


Not only does the iPhone in Landscape mode vaguely resemble that in shape, but the way I type on a phone might be unique to just me. When I type on a smart phone, I use my thumbs and middle (bird) fingers to hold the phone. And I use my index fingers to type.

Weird I realize, but I have always typed faster this way than the tradition thumb mehtod.
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Interesting technique. I can totally understand why the landscape is faster for you. That'd be pretty much impossible in portrait mode haha.
 
LOL. I just find it ironic that the same people complaining about the whiners re: Landscape, have become whiners themselves.

Now that's irony.

:p
 
Rat-Boy said:
Not only does the iPhone in Landscape mode vaguely resemble that in shape, but the way I type on a phone might be unique to just me. When I type on a smart phone, I use my thumbs and middle (bird) fingers to hold the phone. And I use my index fingers to type.

Weird I realize, but I have always typed faster this way than the tradition thumb mehtod.
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I do something similarly weird. I use the index and middle fingers of one hand to type. Much, much easier in landscape mode.
 
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