10 hours ago
I don’t disagree with the overall premise, but I’d characterise Apple’s move to include more buttons in the iPhone as desperation - they’re increasingly running out of ‘innovations’ to justify each new generation of iPhones being worth an upgrade.
5 hours ago
Touch screens have never really worked well for me. they show contacts around my fingers, no contacts at all; or spurious touches when im some distance away. If I ground myself they work better, but still not well. NFI what could do that.
11 hours ago
I wish Tesla (just the whole design department really) shared this sentiment.
9 hours ago
I don't.
If you so fixated on buttons, stalks, whatever - you can buy third party solution for few hundred dollars and still come out cheaper than competing EVs.
Having recently driven car with poorly made buttons (Toyota) I was actually happy to be back in my Tesla.
13 hours ago
My phone has a bottom panel... a left 'menu' touch screen area, a right 'back' area, and in the middle is a home button. Galaxy S6! Before that I used a droid and it had a nice optical joystick/center button.
I die inside a little when I have to use gestures to 'go back' whenever I must borrow an iphone.
I don't see the point in the entire front of a phone needing to be a screen also.
And audio jacks are just gone now from phones. Horrible designs and impractical decisions forced upon comsumers.
The fact that buttons reappearing on phones is now noteworthy is just hot garbage, it is all nonsense trends.
11 hours ago
The back button situation on iPhone is easily the worst thing about the device IMO. There's not even a universal gesture.
I think that the Android panel works well, no need for a physical button, it'd be too fatiguing I think to use over and over.
39 minutes ago
But android still lacks a forward button, and instead has two buttons (square and circle) that I can never tell apart.
9 hours ago
I don’t know about universal, but every app I just tried went back to the parent page when I swiped in from the left side of the screen. This included apps from Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with some random others.
9 hours ago
Holy fn shite. WSJ usually has proper articles, but this one is just plain ridiculous bs.
The big question should be: how come the sober thinkers' voices were suppressed in this "debate" at a company the size of Apple (and Tesla). So in essence you know that jumping off a cliff would hurt, but nonetheless you do it, crawl back to the mountain and then explain your idiotic moves and the groundbreaking insight like it's some next big thing. No, you were stupid, now gtfo.
How come you cannot set what a fucking button should do on your OWN, overpriced phone? How come you cannot do proper text editing on that overpriced shit? How come every feature of an iphone, plain things like reordering shit on your main screen, is lauded?
gtfo, it's an oppressive device.
14 hours ago
Hard paywall: <https://archive.ph/lTXSR>
Alt accessible URL: <https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/touch-screens-are-...>
15 hours ago
I miss resistive touch screens. Those things were neato. Nobody could keep track of a stylus though :(