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Re: IPhone Needs a New Home

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Post by runjake » Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 9:17 PM UTC

highpass wrote: post #65

runjake wrote: post #39

I'd like to point out this blog post is from mid-2009. I initially thought the screenshot was a LockInfo theme. In any case, such an app already exists, and has for quite a while. There are also plugins for RSS, Things & Appigo tasks,iOS notifications etc.It's very themeable, as well. The only hitch? Your iOS device needs to be jailbroken, due to Apple's limitations. The author's LockInfo home page is pretty lacking…

I wondered what all the fuss was about... indeed it seemed like the guy copy/pasted the Gruppled Lockinfo theme and popped some text on the page to describe it all. Lockinfo became too much useless info for me to have open all the time. Notified Pro with Statusbar plugin is the minimalistic approach I was looking for, although not perfect as yet. Edit/ Unsure what year the post was created. Might've been before Locki…

Notified Pro is more of an alternative notification system, not a home screen replacement, isn't it?

Re: IPhone Needs a New Home

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Post by wmboy » Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 9:18 PM UTC

pennig wrote: post #59

wmboy wrote: post #51

We all know Apple planed the iPhone 7 from day 1 and are simply staging it over a series of years to maximise profits. I expect Apple will start allowing screensaver/wallpaper type apps in the not too distant future. It'll open up another revenue stream for them. We know it's almost ready to be rolled out (by looking to jailbroken iPhones) but Apple will want to iron out memory problems before releasing it (at least…

That's quite the theory you've cooked up there.

Exaggeration definitely. But it's no secret that's what Apple does (holding back features they could already deliver for the sake of getting people to upgrade their hardware every year).

Btw, I own an iPhone and MacBook so I'm not anti-Apple.

Re: IPhone Needs a New Home

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Post by ugh » Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

mrcharles wrote: post #68

evo_9 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where you see archaic and limiting, the market - aka normal folks like our mom's and dad's - see a friendly and consistent platform that doesn't change ever time they see a new Droid commercial. People need to realize Apple is a consumer electronics company now more like Sony than Microsoft.

I don't think I've failed to realize that, in fact I specifically addressed it. But that doesn't mean that Apple can't enable power users in some fashion. Plus, a lot of the iPhone's UI now is just ugly, usability aside. The settings menu is just painful to look at, compared to the slick menus and options in Android phones.

That seems to have more to do with personal taste. I think the Android settings menu is horrible.

Re: IPhone Needs a New Home

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Re: IPhone Needs a New Home

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Post by jawee » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 1:46 AM UTC

This looks very similar to an app I had on my only Sony Clie PDA, which I am pretty sure was a copy of something on Pocket PC... this was back in 2003.

Re: IPhone Needs a New Home

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Post by kule » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 8:33 AM UTC

jarin wrote: post #28

kule wrote: post #13

Slightly unrelated but a really simple change I'd really love to see is the "swipe to unlock" moved to the top of the screen so it's easily answerable with one hand. This way you don't have to crane your thumb down or juggle the phone to a higher position in your hand.

How the heck do you hold your phone? I have to stretch to hit the top of the screen with my thumb. I'm with Apple's HIG that the commonly used controls should be at the bottom.

Like most people I would've thought:

http://imgur.com/ZImS6

How do you hold it?? :)

You can, of course, get your little finger under it move the phone body up so it's easy to swipe with your thumb however that's a lot of hand movement and you need to look at what you are doing.

If you are holding the phone whilst walking you generally hold it as in the image above which is much more secure it would be nice to be able to answer it without having to shuffle the phone with your pinky.

To be honest even moving the thumb horizontally to me doesn't feel like the most natural way to move your thumb. Instead consider moving your thumb from the top left arcing across (i.e. from a 12 o'clock position to almost 3 o'clock) of course you'd need to consider lefties but it feels a lot more natural...