Re:Apple Special Event [video]
by vbezhenar on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:59PM
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Yep. I bought iPhone 8 because I wanted to try force touch and faster CPU. Well, it's a feature I could skip (actually I don't even understand why is it there, long press would work just as well) and iPhone SE size would be more comfortable for me (I came from 4S). I'm using iPhone 8 for a few monthes and it's still very uncomfortable to use for me, it's too huge and I can't reach every screen point with my thumb. Certainly a degraded experience from using a smaller phone. I hope that they'll make something smaller next time I'll change phone.
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Once you've become used to positioning the cursor with force touch, you never want to go back.
Re:Apple Special Event [video]
by wingerlang on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:33AM
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This could easily be done in software alone. I had cursor positioning on iOS 5 through jailbreak software.
Have you tried tabbing the home button lightly twice?
I know and it's terrible solution. It oftens gets reset when I'm tapping something (but sometimes it's not), so I have to double-tap again (especially when I want to edit URL in Safari). And anyway reaching any screen point with one hand is vastly superior experience than using workarounds. I've found myself using two hands more and more and that's a step backwards.
May be better UX design would solve that. Any controls should be at the bottom part of the screen. But iOS is not there anyway.