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That's an interesting take. I've not thought of it that way. Apple doesn't include everything a device obviously should have in the first iteration but what i
by yequalsx 15y ago
That's an interesting take. I've not thought of it that way. Apple doesn't include everything a device obviously should have in the first iteration but what it does include it does very well.
All of the iPad competitor devices absolutely suck at looking up the definition of a word in an ebook. (The ones I've tried that is.) On the iPad it is so simple, so intuitive, and quite fast. When they do something they do it well.
- CrazedGeek 15y agoEr, what? At least in the Kindle app on Honeycomb, you just long press a word to see its definition.
- juliano_q 15y agoYep, I read using the Kindle app every day and since I am not a native english speaker I use this function a lot and it works quite well.
- technoslut 15y agoYou don't understand that the Kindle is geared towards something very specific. Apple is building an entire OS. You can three-finger tap to get the dictionary, after highlighting, in iOS 5. Sidenote: Apple views these gestures as the equivalent to keyboard shortcuts. For the end user you want to create the obvious so they won't be confused.
- CrazedGeek 15y agoI don't think that select and three-finger-tap is anywhere close to obvious- doing anything with more than two fingers is already pretty rare on iOS.