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Home Screen Widget 'Blocks' Imagined in New iOS Concept
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True, although in another thread, we're discussing one-handed needs with an amputee.
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I'm a bit amused by all the responses to my simple observation that using a pinch gesture on a small app icon, doesn't cater to the one-handed users.
I was trying to be kind to them, as usually I'm the one wondering why so many people want one handed usage on a multi-touch device.
The mix of tiles and icons in the same view is confusing and breaks continuity of the launcher view.
There is a desire to have a tile view but I see this as an extension of the home screen and not the launcher.
Perhaps a tile of each app running in the background shows on the home screen. You would flick left and right the tiles to see what you want and a flick up to get rid of it as you do in the existing process view.
I am having trouble understanding the naysayers arguments here...
First and foremost, if this were to be an OPTION, nobody would be forced into using it. A widget (or live tile or whatever you want to call it), on every platform it currently exists on is OPTIONAL. Notice the emphasis on OPTION. If they add this and you hate it, you simple never use it. Simple.
As far as it being complicated. How? Because it gives you the weather and location right on the screen without opening an app or having to pull up on Apple's current "widgets" option?
I would personally love something like this for notes, or calendar, or some such. Just one or two bullets updating throughout the day of what I have coming up next on my list of things to get done.
I will concede that I see this as not being great for something like the music app controls, especially one handed. I still wouldn't go as far as to say that I do not want to see this. Why? Well, it might be useful to someone even if that someone isn't me, and adding that feature would literally not effect me in any way since I would simply choose not to use it.
First and foremost, if this were to be an OPTION, nobody would be forced into using it. A widget (or live tile or whatever you want to call it), on every platform it currently exists on is OPTIONAL. Notice the emphasis on OPTION. If they add this and you hate it, you simple never use it. Simple.
As far as it being complicated. How? Because it gives you the weather and location right on the screen without opening an app or having to pull up on Apple's current "widgets" option?
I would personally love something like this for notes, or calendar, or some such. Just one or two bullets updating throughout the day of what I have coming up next on my list of things to get done.
I will concede that I see this as not being great for something like the music app controls, especially one handed. I still wouldn't go as far as to say that I do not want to see this. Why? Well, it might be useful to someone even if that someone isn't me, and adding that feature would literally not effect me in any way since I would simply choose not to use it.
Who did Windows phone copy?
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What was the point of posting the Beats deal at the beginning? The rumor was true. This one may or may not be.
I love this. I hope we something similar to this at WWDC. Eventually iOS will change and this isn't a drastic change and it's optional.
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Great points. It's optional.
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Great points. It's optional.
Are you talking about the pre iPhone Windows phone, or the post iPhone Windows phone?
We should be so lucky for iOS8 to intro something as new and exciting with additional ways to interact and get immediate glance and go information.
I wouldn't get my hopes up though.
It's just this incredible waste of space on the iPad and soon the iPhone 6. You have all this screen-estate but very little to show with it unless you're in the app and that's all you see.
This isn't a rumor though. It's just a mock up someone did that happened to make the front page of the Verge website. That's why I'm questioning whether it should be front page news. What's the point when there have been ZERO rumors that Apple is planning to implement widgets in iOS? I could maybe understand if this was a mock up of split screen multitasking as that rumor IS out there.
Ok, now I get what you meant.
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Do you think that Microsoft copied Apple with Windows Phone after the iPhone? Do you think they copied Windows 8 from Apple too? Just curious.
Home Screen Widget 'Blocks' Imagined in New iOS Concept
As someone who used Windows phones for many years before the iPhone was introduced, and Pocket PCs before that, the current Windows telephone was at least inspired by a need to compete with the Apple revolution in phones.
Microsoft's switch from their old mobile platform to the new one would never have happened without the success of Apple's iPhones and iPads. This is a good thing, it's competition in the marketplace.
Ok, now I get what you meant.
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Do you think that Microsoft copied Apple with Windows Phone after the iPhone? Do you think they copied Windows 8 from Apple too? Just curious.
As someone who used Windows phones for many years before the iPhone was introduced, and Pocket PCs before that, the current Windows telephone was at least inspired by a need to compete with the Apple revolution in phones.
Microsoft's switch from their old mobile platform to the new one would never have happened without the success of Apple's iPhones and iPads. This is a good thing, it's competition in the marketplace.
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Why? The point is the wording is already in its correct position when its smaller. The big block is 4 x the size of the normal icon. Its aesthetically pleasing.
If they release IOS8 and its still rows and rows of icons, there is going to be some complaints. The media will comment for sure, as they did with IOS7. Fair enough now. It works very well YES, BUT really it can still work well with some widget style implementation. I like this.....A LOT.
Almost guarantee we won't see it though. Such a shame
Almost guarantee we won't see it though. Such a shame
As long as they implement it better than Android. Frozen and unresponsive widgets are pointless. Which is why I figured Apple never implemented them. Widgets running all the time tend to drain the battery.
Good thing that kinda stuff never happens in Android. My phone is two years old with split screen and 10 apps running almost all of the time and my widgets have NEVER frozen.
I also get about 35 hours of battery life with average usage. More with light usage. To be fair though my Note 2 battery is bigger than most folk's phones.
I've used a Note II, and the widgets freeze. If you are saying they don't, you are probably also one of those users who denies that Android had any problems with stuttering and freezing issues throughout the OS, thus prompting the whole "project butter" movement.
So you're debating my anecdotal evidence with more anecdotal evidence?
Good for you!??!?!!
I guess.
Here's one for you. I've used an iPhone 4s, 5, and 5s and apps freeze and quit on it too. Also the battery life is abysmal.
So you're debating my anecdotal evidence with more anecdotal evidence?
Good for you!??!?!!
I guess.
Here's one for you. I've used an iPhone 4s, 5, and 5s and apps freeze and quit on it too. Also the battery life is abysmal.
You here just to troll or what?
My evidence is not just anecdotal. There are Android widgets that have an option to "stay active" in the settings option, with the logical implication that when the option is not checked, they are set to sleep after a certain amount of time, which explains why many widgets do not respond to inputs sporadically.
Not only that, but your iPhone complaints have nothing to do with the topic at hand, which is widgets.
But have a nice time.
Nope, just giving perspective.
Everything else in that post is just moot, off topic, and useless.