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I also "drooled over the 4" for quite awhile waiting but when I got the 4S I found it didn't take me long to recall Edward Tufte's words: "the elegant sharp ed
by Steko 15y ago
I also "drooled over the 4" for quite awhile waiting but when I got the 4S I found it didn't take me long to recall Edward Tufte's words:
"the elegant sharp edges that encase many touchscreens require users to desensitize their hands in order to ignore the physical discomfort produced by the aggressive edges. Last year in Cupertino, I yelled at some people about touchscreens that paid precise attention to finger touches from the user but not to how the device in turn touches the hands of the user (and produces divot edge-lines in the flesh)."
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003qM&topic_id=1 http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
It took me at least a full week to get my hand acclimated to the 4S edges.
- cma 15y agoIt lets the phone stand on edge for facetime; the htc solution would have been a kickstand, adding tons of size and weight.
- cheald 15y agoIt seems like a terrible design choice to make the product uncomfortable to use in the common case to accommodate a single far less common use case.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoWhat do you have around you that rests at eye level that you can set an iphone on? It's not like the camera aims up or anyone wants to FaceTime with my belly.
- Steko 15y agoAll imho... There are some great things about the 4/4S hardware. The screen quality, camera and battery life are well attested to all over. The A5 benchmarks lap the field. The voice quality is much improved. My reception is far more consistent when about. The look and build quality is amazing. There's no need to make up features though. I have on a couple of occasions balanced my 4S vertically for all of a few seconds. It felt precarious and was hardly stable or intended.
- epo 15y agoUnless you cling on to the phone like your life depended on holding it tight this is simply bogus. A full week? I find it almost impossible to believe that any grown person could be that feeble.