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> "awful time slider" awful? I think it's fairly clever, myself. ... you do know that when you touch to 'grab' the nubbin, you can slide your finger down the
by roc 16y ago
> "awful time slider"
awful? I think it's fairly clever, myself.
... you do know that when you touch to 'grab' the nubbin, you can slide your finger down the face of the device a bit, and then when you slide left or right it scrubs more slowly, based on how far down the device you slid?
- grandalf 16y agofor serious audiobook use, it's pretty crude.
- BlazingFrog 16y agoDid not know that. Thanks for the tip.
- mdaniel 16y agoI actually only recently learned about it. Which makes me wonder if someone "stumbled" upon that, or there is a secret iPhone user's manual that only special people receive. In hindsight, I think that a more "audio scrobber" motion, akin to the way the iPod wheel works, would have been a ton more intuitive.
- bbatsell 16y agoThey demoed it quite prominently onstage when they introduced it, and the screen says "Hi-Speed Scrubbing" when you start scrubbing (and changes as you move down). It's not the most discoverable feature ever, but it's not a hidden Easter egg.