IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape • Hacker News Board

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by ccheever » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 12:43 AM UTC

Yeah, I wish this were an OS-level toggle.

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by iag » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 1:03 AM UTC

I concur wholeheartedly

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by senthilnayagam » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 1:43 AM UTC

I totally agree with it, smart rotation can be dumb in many scenarios, there manual controls work best

also the internet tethering enabling / disabling needs 5-6 clicks/swipes, it can be made lot simpler than that

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by senthilnayagam » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 1:43 AM UTC

I totally agree with it, smart rotation can be dumb in many scenarios, there manual controls work best

also the internet tethering enabling / disabling needs 5-6 clicks/swipes, it can be made lot simpler than that

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by st3fan » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 1:44 AM UTC

Haha this is so true. I use my iPhone as an alarm clock and sometimes also read mail or news on it in bed. Landscape mode is so annoying. You finally get comfy and then .. boom! .. landscape mode ..

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by ryanpetrich » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 2:04 AM UTC

davidroe wrote: post #9

petercooper wrote: post #2

Yep, this has driven me bonkers since day one. In fact, if I could easily tear out the accelerometer(s) totally I'd be the first to do it (I find games that use them next to unplayable). I listen to podcasts every night going to sleep and if I want to find a different podcast to listen to, it dives into Coverflow (which I can't imagine anyone ever finding productive, but weirder things have happened!)

if you are willing to jail-break, RotationInhibitor does the trick.

you're welcome.

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by ryanpetrich » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 2:06 AM UTC

cwilson wrote: post #25

tlrobinson wrote: post #21

Why should every developer have to implement this. Apple should make it a system-wide setting.

Because that system wide setting would break a ton of apps (think about games that only use landscape for example). I mean, I'd personally be fine with this, but I don't think it's as easy as that.

Rotation is a system-provided feature. Apps that require the accelerometer access it directly; apps that require landscape would still be able to force that orientation (and would work as they do today)

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by eueueuii » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 2:33 AM UTC

ditto for Palm Pre!

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by jrockway » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 2:39 AM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #21

Why should every developer have to implement this. Apple should make it a system-wide setting.

Android does this.

Re: IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape

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Post by sammcd » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 2:41 AM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #21

Why should every developer have to implement this. Apple should make it a system-wide setting.

Be sure to thank boucher for implementing this in the reddit app.