You know, this is going to sound dumb, but I actually don't like the tilt screen. Why, you ask? Because the vast majority of the time I am looking at the phone while it is tilted, it is because I am laying down and just holding the phone in such a way I can read it. If the damned thing knows it is tilted so it rotates all the text, it is now actually incorrect for my point of view.
Anyway, just my two cents on that feature.
Here are my posts from another forum which detailed my feelings on the iPhone while it was being announced...
My job/career is currently based on electronics, none of which have a Mac emblem anywhere on them.
Nothing will change.
How many people who have a cell phone currently have a $400+ unit? Not many (comparatively).
People will still buy the $49/$99 deal phones in the thousands because their cheap, they play some games, and make and receive calls.
Again, someone who isn't clearly arguing against my point and just makes a quick, mildly intelligent retort.
How is the iphone going to REVOLUTIONIZE the phone industry? It's just another gadget that caters to the expensive gadget crowd. Nokia, Motorola, Ericson, and all the rest have nothing to worry about with the iphone, because for every 1 iphone sold they will still sell 6 $49 deal phones.
What?
What has Mac done that deserves praise?
So they made a gimmicky music gadget, and a pay for play interface that works mildly well, so that whiny teenagers can download Hawthorne Heights and whine about "the darkness", big freaking deal. When I see a major corporation adopt Mac as their primary work horse and 600 macs are networked together working flawlessly in a business environment I might start to care.
No, I don't think this will make any difference whatsoever in the cell phone industry.
You know, this is going to sound dumb, but I actually don't like the tilt screen. Why, you ask? Because the vast majority of the time I am looking at the phone while it is tilted, it is because I am laying down and just holding the phone in such a way I can read it. If the damned thing knows it is tilted so it rotates all the text, it is now actually incorrect for my point of view.
Anyway, just my two cents on that feature.
Given Mac's genius when designing interfaces, I am sure there is a setting that you can disable that feature.
Mac developed an OS that Microsoft is imitating. Windows borrows more from Mac than vice versa. Why is that? Because time and time again they plan and put thought into their design and the engineer their product for a specific group of people to be easy and fast to learn and use. Microsoft does not do this, or does not do this effectively.
Given Mac's genius when designing interfaces, I am sure there is a setting that you can disable that feature.
Being able to turn it off is now the thing that makes a feature genius?
I guess I agree with what you are saying, essentially, but I feel a setting which I leave off all the time is more than worthless, it is a waste of money. What happened is I basically funded the development of something I don't care about. (If I buy it, of course.)
The Mac and MS interfaces have been so far removed from eachother for over two decades that you may as well group the Wii Channel interface in their with them due to its "similiarities", being they're all GUI.
My dad actually worked on that kekeke. They stole it all from Xerox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC
Being able to turn it off is now the thing that makes a feature genius?
I guess I agree with what you are saying, essentially, but I feel a setting which I leave off all the time is more than worthless, it is a waste of money. What happened is I basically funded the development of something I don't care about. (If I buy it, of course.)
Being able to turn it off is now the thing that makes a feature genius?
I guess I agree with what you are saying, essentially, but I feel a setting which I leave off all the time is more than worthless, it is a waste of money. What happened is I basically funded the development of something I don't care about. (If I buy it, of course.)
The Mac and MS interfaces have been so far removed from eachother for over two decades that you may as well group the Wii Channel interface in their with them due to its "similiarities", being they're all GUI.
Mac put the motion/tilt feature in because that's the new "thing" with electronics. They did not design, think up, plan, draw out, pioneer or invent it. They just copied it and said "Wow, so cool a feature, I hope you would enjoy it....microsoft sucks kids, buy mac, microsoft is for uncool people, you don't want to uncool do you?"