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> my biggest gripe is: no back button I had an Android for awhile and the hardware back button made no sense to me. I thought most phones eventually moved to
by pfranz 10y ago
> my biggest gripe is: no back button
I had an Android for awhile and the hardware back button made no sense to me. I thought most phones eventually moved to a software back button. I never really knew if I would be going back inside the app, to the last app I had open, to the home screen, or if I was at the end of the queue and it did nothing. Apple took much longer to add it, but I prefer the context their implementation has and gestures for it.
> And third, I can't organize my icons the way I want to.
I have no idea what you're talking about. This is what it sounds like you're talking about[1]. I don't think it was in the original iPhone (2007), but I see references dating back to Jan 2008.
[1] http://i0.wp.com/content.screencast.com/users/Fosteronomo/folders/Default/media/850b26f3-2a8e-447c-ad3a-b83695b62d0e/ios_home_screen_new_page.gif http://i0.wp.com/content.screencast.com/users/Fosteronomo/fo...
- WayneBro 10y ago> I thought most phones eventually moved to a software back button. The Android OS implements the software back button, not the apps...and it's always at the bottom of the screen where I can easily reach it. iOS does not implement any such back button - each app has to implement its own and the convention on iOS is to place that back button all the way in the upper left corner of the screen which is very inconvenient to reach for. > I have no idea what you're talking about. (re: organizing icons) So, let's imagine that you have 3 app icons on one of your home screens in iOS... Can you put one of them in the lower right corner? Nope. Can you put one of them all the way on the right side while the other 2 stay on the left? Nope. Can you do anything to position them absolutely? No you cannot. You must resort to jailbreaking or other hackery (like blank icons) to make this work.